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BEEHIVE AND CHAMBER TOMBS 12S
feet long and nearly 20 feet wide, the sides being again
faced with ashlar masonry, though the blocks are less mas-
sive than in the avenue already described. As the dromos
is 10 feet longer than that of the Treasury of Atreus, so
the doorway is somewhat larger, measuring 18 feet in clear
height, and the same in horizontal depth. The ground
width of the door is a trifle greater, the upper breadth a
trifle less, than the corresponding measurements in the other
tomb. Here, too, the facade was adorned by alabaster semi-
columns ; but instead of the carved zigzag-spiral pattern,
these have a regular Doric fluting. A considerable section
of one of these shafts—rising above the third course of
the breccia-facing — is still in situ. Like the column in
the Lions' relief, and the pilasters of the Treasury of
Atreus, it tapers slightly downward — the circumference at
the base measuring nearly two inches less than at the top
of the fragment. An alabaster capital which lay by the
doorway, and was at first taken to belong to the column,
proves to be quite too small for the shaft. The lintel is
formed of three great blocks of leek-green marble; " in
the centre slab are the pivot-holes for folding-doors, which
opened inwards. The inmost block runs far into the wall
on both sides and joins a stone-course of the same height,
running right through, and made of thirteen blocks which
form a real tie-beam. The remaining square blocks are
very much lower and cut-like slabs."1 The lintel is sur-
mounted by a sort of moulding composed of two project-
ing slabs of bluish-gray marble. The lower slab is carved
with a line of disks in low relief, evidently representing
again the beam-ends of a roof-frame, such as we have seen
in the relief above the Lions' Gate; while the upper slab is
carved with spirals. The triangle, as at the Treasury of
1 Adler, Tiryns, xxxviii.
feet long and nearly 20 feet wide, the sides being again
faced with ashlar masonry, though the blocks are less mas-
sive than in the avenue already described. As the dromos
is 10 feet longer than that of the Treasury of Atreus, so
the doorway is somewhat larger, measuring 18 feet in clear
height, and the same in horizontal depth. The ground
width of the door is a trifle greater, the upper breadth a
trifle less, than the corresponding measurements in the other
tomb. Here, too, the facade was adorned by alabaster semi-
columns ; but instead of the carved zigzag-spiral pattern,
these have a regular Doric fluting. A considerable section
of one of these shafts—rising above the third course of
the breccia-facing — is still in situ. Like the column in
the Lions' relief, and the pilasters of the Treasury of
Atreus, it tapers slightly downward — the circumference at
the base measuring nearly two inches less than at the top
of the fragment. An alabaster capital which lay by the
doorway, and was at first taken to belong to the column,
proves to be quite too small for the shaft. The lintel is
formed of three great blocks of leek-green marble; " in
the centre slab are the pivot-holes for folding-doors, which
opened inwards. The inmost block runs far into the wall
on both sides and joins a stone-course of the same height,
running right through, and made of thirteen blocks which
form a real tie-beam. The remaining square blocks are
very much lower and cut-like slabs."1 The lintel is sur-
mounted by a sort of moulding composed of two project-
ing slabs of bluish-gray marble. The lower slab is carved
with a line of disks in low relief, evidently representing
again the beam-ends of a roof-frame, such as we have seen
in the relief above the Lions' Gate; while the upper slab is
carved with spirals. The triangle, as at the Treasury of
1 Adler, Tiryns, xxxviii.