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124 THE MYCENAEAN AGE
Atreus, was closed by sculptured slabs of red marble, and
is still walled up on the inside — a fact showing conclu-
sively that this space was never meant for a window.
While very like the Atreus tomb in plan and dimensions,
this tomb differs from that in several features. It has no
Peculiar sicle-ehamber; but it has a separate pit-grave (9
features £eet long^ 4 feet ^^ and about 1_i £eet fc^y
sunk in the dromos some 18 feet outside the doorway.1
Further, at the centre of the tholos itself, there is a pit
hewn in the rock, and full of water for many months in
the year, with an underground conduit leading- from it to
the outer end of the dromos. It would seem that the pit
was dug and the aqueduct constructed by the builders of
the tomb to collect and carry off the water which was
found trickling from the rock, and not only made the vault
damp, but endangered its stability. This tomb is still fur-
ther distinguished by the preservation of the wall of poros
stones which blocked the doorway, and which stood to a
height of nearly 5 feet, until necessarily destroyed a'short
time ago; as well as by a similar wall more than 7 feet
high, which blocks the outer end of the dromos to this
day (Fig. 45). Of the six remaining tholoi now known
at Mycenae but one is inside the town wall. It lies be-
tween the tomb of Clytemnestra and the citadel, and was
discovered in November, 1892, but has not yet been en-
tirely excavated.
Of the five outside, all but one have been cleared. Of
all these the largest and best built is one situated to the
north-west of the Lions' Gate not far from the
outsido town wall. The dromos is 70 feet long" and 16-1-
town walls „ ., ... ., „ i-i
teet wide, and its sides are raced with squared
blocks of poros, while the outer end was closed by a wall
1 Here were found the ivory mirror handles described in Chap. VII.
Atreus, was closed by sculptured slabs of red marble, and
is still walled up on the inside — a fact showing conclu-
sively that this space was never meant for a window.
While very like the Atreus tomb in plan and dimensions,
this tomb differs from that in several features. It has no
Peculiar sicle-ehamber; but it has a separate pit-grave (9
features £eet long^ 4 feet ^^ and about 1_i £eet fc^y
sunk in the dromos some 18 feet outside the doorway.1
Further, at the centre of the tholos itself, there is a pit
hewn in the rock, and full of water for many months in
the year, with an underground conduit leading- from it to
the outer end of the dromos. It would seem that the pit
was dug and the aqueduct constructed by the builders of
the tomb to collect and carry off the water which was
found trickling from the rock, and not only made the vault
damp, but endangered its stability. This tomb is still fur-
ther distinguished by the preservation of the wall of poros
stones which blocked the doorway, and which stood to a
height of nearly 5 feet, until necessarily destroyed a'short
time ago; as well as by a similar wall more than 7 feet
high, which blocks the outer end of the dromos to this
day (Fig. 45). Of the six remaining tholoi now known
at Mycenae but one is inside the town wall. It lies be-
tween the tomb of Clytemnestra and the citadel, and was
discovered in November, 1892, but has not yet been en-
tirely excavated.
Of the five outside, all but one have been cleared. Of
all these the largest and best built is one situated to the
north-west of the Lions' Gate not far from the
outsido town wall. The dromos is 70 feet long" and 16-1-
town walls „ ., ... ., „ i-i
teet wide, and its sides are raced with squared
blocks of poros, while the outer end was closed by a wall
1 Here were found the ivory mirror handles described in Chap. VII.