History of art in primitive Greece; Mycenian art from the French of Georges Perrot ... and Charles Chipiez. Illustrated with five hundred and forty-four engravings in the text, and twenty coloured plates (1894)
Perrot, Georges, 1832-1914, Chipiez, Charles, 1835-1901, Gonino, I · London, Chapman and Hall, Limited · leaf 119
to that which has been met with along the whole line of coast of the /Egean. Graves bearing the mark of that epoch are now dug in the ground, now rock-excavated ; but wherever they are not mere holes hastily made in the earth’s surface, they present a uniform arrangement. They then consist of a… … pierced in one of the small sides, and forms the grave strictly so called. A corresponding niche sometimes occurs on the opposite side ; elsewhere the vault is one with the axis of the shaft. But no matter its situation, a slab invariably forms its covering. The bones seen in these cavities are…
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