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dc.date.accessioned | 2016-01-06T09:02:04Z | |
dc.date.available | 2016-01-06T09:02:04Z | |
dc.date.issued | 1953 | |
dc.identifier.citation | The papers of the British School at Rome. 1953, Vol 21, p. 32-41 | en_GB |
dc.identifier.uri | https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar//handle/123456789/7274 | |
dc.description.abstract | On the 22nd September 1950, whilst workmen were digging a trench for the laying of a water main at Ghajn Qajjet, near Rabat, Malta at a depth of 2 ft. 8 in. below the surface of the road,the burial chamber of a rock-cut tomb was broken into. This chamber, rectangular in plan and with a flat ceiling, measured 12 ft. in length, 10 ft. in width, and 5 ft. 7 in. in height; its long axis ran in a north-easterly direction. A slab of Globigerina limestone, 6 ft. 5 in. long, 5 ft. 8 in. wide, and 5 in. thick, rested horizontally on the floor and was set with two of its sides in contact with the north-east and the south-east walls; owing to the slight inclination of the floor, being higher towards the north-east, it was propped up by roughly dressed small blocks of stone. There was also a cavity, 10 in. in diameter and 6 in. deep, cut in the floor at a distance of 4 in. from the south-west side of the stone slab and quite close to the south-east wall of the chamber. | en_GB |
dc.language.iso | en | en_GB |
dc.rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess | en_GB |
dc.subject | Malta -- Antiquities | en_GB |
dc.subject | Tombs -- Malta | en_GB |
dc.subject | Rabat (Malta) -- Antiquities | en_GB |
dc.title | Rock tomb at Ghajn Qajjet, near Rabat, Malta | en_GB |
dc.type | article | en_GB |
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dc.description.reviewed | N/A | en_GB |
dc.contributor.creator | Baldacchino, J.G. | |
dc.contributor.creator | Dunbabin, Thomas James | |
Appears in Collections: | Melitensia Works - ERCASHArc |
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