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table cut in bedrock on the long axis of the tomb. The full length
of hypogeum T10A, including the aboveground part, was 30 m.
Clearing work was also carried out in hypogeum T8 which
belongs to the second type. The staircase of which further sections
were uncovered is severely damaged. To judge by the discovered
structural elements, it must have been covered with a flat roof,
similar to that found in T7. Hypogeum T8 should be considered
among the largest structures of the type. The aboveground part and
staircase discovered so far has a total length of 28 m; the length of
the inner courtyard and burial chamber, when cleared, will have
to be added to this.
Recapitulating this season’s discoveries, one has to observe
the rich variety of burial structures discovered on the western
necropolis of the ancient town. Beside the two types of hypogea,
i.e.
1) without an aboveground part, and
2) with a separate underground and aboveground part,
there are several types of tombs of smaller size, namely:
a) trench tombs covered with flat slabs;
b) trench tombs with an aboveground monument in the form of a
stepped pyramid;
c) box-like tombs topped by different kinds of sepulchral monu
ments: columns, pillars, sarcophagi etc.;
d) box-like tombs inside a temenos (T4)^;
e) a columbarium (Til) with a number of rows of loculi one
above the other and topped by some kind of sepulchral monument;
f) "mass graves" in the form of great prisms of stones laid above
trenches hewn in bedrock;

8 See id., MDAIK 46, 1990, pl,15h.

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