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XXXI.—Description of Ancient Rock-Tombs at Ghain Tiffiha and Tal Horr, Malta

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 January 2012

John S. Swann
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The tombs at Ghain Tiffiha, which is situated on the west or Gozo side of Malta, three or four miles to the south of St. Paul's Bay, are all cut in the rock, and, though differing slightly in form and dimensions, have a general resemblance, as will be seen by the following descriptions.

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Research Article
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Archaeologia , Volume 40 , Issue 2 , 1867 , pp. 483 - 487
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Copyright © The Society of Antiquaries of London 1867

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a Gh is the aspirate, and the name is often written Ain Tiffiha, Taffiha, or Toffiha. [By an accidental error the name is misspelt Tiffika in the accompanying plate.]

b There was room in the chamber for the bodies to have been laid in the extended position, and I believe them to have been so deposited, from observing the position of the fragments of skulls at one end of the chamber, and of the phalanges and tarsal bones at the other. I was not able to inspect a tomb entirely undisturbed, the workman having pulled about the contents immediately they were opened, in search of coins or other objects of value, which however do not appear to have been found.