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Rude stone monuments in all countries : their age and uses (1872)

Fergusson, James, 1808-1886 · London, J. Murray · leaf 58

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00 ft. to 1 in. horizontal vault, and having a sepulchral chamber on one side.Dodwell discovered three others of the five mentioned by Pau-sanias,2 and he also -explored the sepulchre of Minyas at Orcho-menos, which had a diameter of 65 feet. Another group of tombs, contemporary or nearly so with… … 5. View of Cocumella, Vulci. have been 115 to 120 feet in height. Near the centre rise twosteles, but so unsymmetrically that it is impossible to understandwhy they were so placed and how they could have been groupedinto anything like a complete design. The sepulchre, too, isplaced on one side. 1…

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