This pit is a square about seventy feet long and as many wide.

On one side of this open space we enter a large hall, its broad portal ornamented with beautiful sculpture, in the form of flowers, fruit, and arabesques.

This hall leads to the graves, which run round it, and consist of niches hewn in the rock, just sufficiently large to contain a sarcophagus.

Most of these niches were choked up with rubbish, but into some we could still see; they were all exactly alike.

These long, narrow, rock- hewn graves reminded me exactly of those I had seen in a vault at Gran, in Hungary.