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easily be lost as well of the bodies themselves, as of the vases and 
urns which contained the ashes. There appears to have been no 
difference whatever in the mode of burial practised by the Greeks and 
Eomans of Teuchira, since many of the tombs, which are similar 
within, have on them the names of one and the other nation indis- 
criminately, and they are often seen mingled together on the same. 
It is probable that the early tombs would be interesting, and that 
they would be found at the same time more perfect than the rest ; 
for the sand has accumulated about them in such heaps as to have 
blocked up all access to them for ages. Those most buried are the 
tombs which are nearest the town, and they are also, we should 
imagine, the oldest ; but we had no time to employ in excavating 
any of them, although we very much wished to do so. 
There is one example of a painted tomb at Teuchira, in very bad 
taste, and this was the only one we could perceive that was so ; it is 
probable, however, that most of them have been originally painted, and 
that what we see at present are the mere skeletons of the originals*. 
Of the buildings contained within the walls of the city, the most 
interesting of those whose plans were distinguishable, appeared to us 
to be the two Christian churches which will be found, with all the 
details we could procure of them, in the plate, page 367. In both 
*' Plans and sections of some of the tombs will be found in page 367, and we think the 
reader will not be able to trace so much resemblance between the style of Teuchira and 
that of Gyrene as Signor Della Celia has discovered, when he tells us that “ II fabri- 
cate di Tochira, dello stessissimo stile di quello di Cirene, la stessa copia, e struttura di 
tombi, conferma ciocche di questa citta lascid scritto Erodoto, che usava le stesse leggi 
de’ Cirenei , — (Page 199.) 
