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PREHISTORIC MALTA; THE TARXIEN TEMPLES, by Sir Themistocles Zammit. Pp. xvi, 127, figs. 34, p1s. 33 and maps. Oxford University Press, 1930. This very welcome book establishes the importance of Malta as a center of Neolithic culture. Excellent plates and figures give abundant illustration of the architecture, sculpture, pottery, and implements found on the site. The archaeologist visiting Malta will find this work a very convenient help both at the ruins and in the Museum of Malta. Few monuments of the Stone Age can rival in interest and fascination the hypogeum of Hal Saflieni and the temples of Tarxien. The recent excavations of the latter have revealed two clearly separated strata of the Neolithic and Bronze Ages. The megalithic temples which were in use down to the end of the Stone Age are a remarkable complex of apsidal structures attesting the high level of Maltese culture in that remote time. A conspicuous feature of the temples is the high threshold block decorated with spiral patterns which bars passage to the niches. One is reminded of the giant doorsill of the temple at Didyma. This megalithic building was accompanied by colossal figure sculpture a fragment of which was

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Author

G. W. Elderkin

Publisher

University of Chicago Press

Published

1931

Language

EN

Field

Arts and Humanities (Social Sciences)