ABSTRACT
A individually in graves finally closed after the funeral. Occasionally the remains and funerary offerings were placed in simple trench-graves or pits. More often they were enclosed in a coffin of thin stone slabs, termed a short cist. The cists are generally from 3 to 4 feet long, by 2 feet wide. The sides are normally formed of four slabs while a fifth, often unneces sarily large, covers the cist. The bottom is often roughly paved with pebbles, but a slab pavement is quite exceptional. It has several times been observed that the joints of the cist were carefully luted with clay. In one or two cases 1 two cists were juxtaposed so as to have an end-slab in common.
