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A Greek Inscription found in Malta

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 December 2013

Edward Coleiro
Affiliation:
University of Malta

Extract

On the 27th November, 1951, at a little distance outside the ditch which marks the walls of the Roman town of Melita (now Rabat-Mdina), in an area covered with Roman tombs, a huge stone was found measuring 60 in. in length, 27½ in. in height and 19½ in. in breadth (152·4 cm. } 73·6 cm. } 53·3 cm.). It is a funerary altar with a simply decorated mensa and sides. The back has no decoration and its surface is rough. When excavated the altar was found in a place where the rock was cut to allow of its being placed against it and between it and the wall of rock there was an empty space of a little depth, clearly indicating that the space must have been filled by some architectural structure of a nature slight enough to be completely destroyed at a later date.

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Copyright
Copyright © The Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies 1957

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