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Graffiti of Ships at Tarxien, Malta*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Diana Woolner
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In May 1956, while visiting the megalithic temples of Tarxien, which stand on high ground less than a mile from the inner creeks of Grand Harbour, massed graffiti of ships were observed on two adjacent uprights in the ‘Third Temple’.

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Antiquity , Volume 31 , Issue 122 , June 1957 , pp. 60 - 67
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd 1957

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