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https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.1021#0172
BEEHIVE AND CHAMBER TOMBS
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which is now destroyed. The doorway is 17 feet 10 inches
in height, 8 feet 6 inches wide below, and 16 feet 9 inches
deep. The facade was dressed with hewn blocks of poros,
Fig. 40. Facade of Beehive Tomb
while the sides of the entrance (which is nearly 17 feet
deep) are faced with breccia. Three huge blocks of the
same breccia form the lintel. A pivot-hole in the lintel
shows that this tomb also must have been closed by a door,
though the door-sill is not preserved to confirm the fact.
Of the tholos — whose upper part fell in long ago — the
ground course is formed of massive blocks of breccia, well
hewn, but from this up the wall is built of small limestone
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which is now destroyed. The doorway is 17 feet 10 inches
in height, 8 feet 6 inches wide below, and 16 feet 9 inches
deep. The facade was dressed with hewn blocks of poros,
Fig. 40. Facade of Beehive Tomb
while the sides of the entrance (which is nearly 17 feet
deep) are faced with breccia. Three huge blocks of the
same breccia form the lintel. A pivot-hole in the lintel
shows that this tomb also must have been closed by a door,
though the door-sill is not preserved to confirm the fact.
Of the tholos — whose upper part fell in long ago — the
ground course is formed of massive blocks of breccia, well
hewn, but from this up the wall is built of small limestone