Although it is unfinished, the central hypogeum also offers one of the best preserved examples of a triclinium Agape Table to be found in the late-Roman burials of Malta.
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The Hypogeum was depicted on a 2 cents 5 mils stamp issued in the Maltese Islands in 1980 to commemorate the acceptance by UNESCO of this unique structure in the World Heritage Site list.
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On behalf of Giovanni Battista de Rossi, in the second half of 19th century Mariano Armellini made a series of excavations into the hypogeum cemetery, recovering some parts in good preservation status.
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However, the construction of the hypogeum at Domitian's behest put an end to the practise of flooding, and thus also to naval battles, early in the Colosseum's existence.
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Its name derives from the site of the Hypogeum of & al-Saflieni . This period carried forward the same characteristics of the gantija pottery shapes, but it also introduces new biconical bowls.
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Fr Magri was entrusted with the excavation of the Hypogeum of & al-Saflieni, a Megalithic Temple in Xewkija ( Gozo ), and a number of other sites in Malta and Gozo.
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The wall of one small hypogeum features an altar flanked by large pillars carved in relief, on one of which is engraved with illustrations often interpreted to be a face and a kind of palette.
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The hypogeum was designed to house funeral urns in small niches in the walls; at the time of its discovery, it contained sarcophagi, which suggests that it was in use for a long time.
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It has been suggested that the reports either have the location wrong, or that the Colosseum originally featured a wide floodable channel down its central axis ( which would later have been replaced by the hypogeum ).
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It is the only prehistoric stone-enclosed hypogeum in Europe, and it is regarded as one of the most important archaeological sites in Malta along with the megalithic temples and the Hypogeum of & al-Saflieni.
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