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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III THE CARTHAGE OF TO-DAY (continue) WE started from the lighthouse to walk through ancient Carthage, and we began with a Punic cemetery, which, during the process of excavation, looks rather like an alluvial gold-mine; for there are a lot of shafts, the deepest about fifty feet, wide enough to allow a sarcophagus to pass up end-wise, with passages going off them, which conduct into mortuary chambers just big enough to contain a pair of sarcophagi, with a space for their passage between them, opposite the entrance. These mortuary chambers may be cut out of the virgin rock, or built of large, regular hewn stones. When the tombs were full the shafts were filled up. They always have at least a couple of yards' depth of soil before the tomb passages begin. The age of the necropolis is determined by the general characteristics of the objects found. This one, for example, the Abbe Delattre pronounced to be of the fifth to the second century before Christ, because some of the bodies were buried and some cremated, and both Punic and Greek lamps were found, with the typical Carthaginian amphora, which had a long spike for its foot and was used to contain human ashes. Some fine sarcophagi cut out of single blocks were discovered here, made variously of tufa, limestone, and white marble. There were also found in some of the tombs little ossuaries containing burnt human remains which are suspected of being the ashes of the children of noble families sacrificed to Moloch. The Carthaginian sarcophagi are mostly of a very graceful type, resting on feet. They are slightly wider at the top than at the bottom, and ornamented with tall ears along the lid and carving and colouring along the sides. The best of them, which were not found in this necropolis, have their lids enti...


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  • ISBN-13: 9780217822329
  • Publisher: General Books
  • Publisher Imprint: General Books
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 68
  • Spine Width: 4 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0217822320
  • Publisher Date: 12 Feb 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 141 gr


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