Various articles of ornament and use were interred with each body, which will be more particularly described hereafter.

Food seems often to have been placed in the tombs, and jars or other drinking vessels are universal.
The brick vaults appear to have been family sepulchres; they have often received three or four bodies, and in one case a single vault contained eleven skeletons.
[Illustration: PLATE 12] The clay coffins, shaped like a dish-cover, are among the most curious of the sepulchral remains of antiquity.

[PLATE XI., Fig.

2; PLATE XII., Fig.

1.] On a platform of sun-dried brick is laid a mat exactly similar to those in common use among the Arabs of the country at the present day; and hereon lies the skeleton disposed as in the brick vaults, and surrounded by utensils and ornaments.