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IN ATTICA
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triangular relieving space. However, this triangle, as we know, is want-
ing at Menidi, and the same seems to be true of the larger of the ellipti-
cal tombs at Thorieus.
Inside of this dome, which is 30 feet in diameter, are two quite novel
quadrangular structures of small stones bonded with clay, which we
may call " built" sarcophagi. One of these is %% feet long, 3f feet wide,
and 4£ feet high; the other is some 10 feet long, 5J feet wide, and 3|
feet high. These structures, no doubt, served for separate graves, like
the pits in the domed tombs of Mycenae and Vaphio (see pp. 126, 130);
in the Thorieus vault, indeed, we find the sunken pit along with the raised
sarcophagus. There are three of these pits, one of them — containing
Fig. 163. Raised Grave within the same Tomb
human bones and covered with slabs — being partly built over by one of
the structures in question. While the " sarcophagus " is thus shown to
be later than the pit, both are clearly of Mycenaean date. The finds in
this tomb include four glazed vases, a plain gold ring, a bronze mirror, a
leaden disk, half of a small ivory box carved with spirals, rosettes of
glass paste, stone arrow-heads, and a white marble object resembling in
form the lamps found at Mycenae.
Remains as old as those of the earlier Thorieus period have also been
found in the neighborhood of Kapandriti, near the ruins of ancient
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triangular relieving space. However, this triangle, as we know, is want-
ing at Menidi, and the same seems to be true of the larger of the ellipti-
cal tombs at Thorieus.
Inside of this dome, which is 30 feet in diameter, are two quite novel
quadrangular structures of small stones bonded with clay, which we
may call " built" sarcophagi. One of these is %% feet long, 3f feet wide,
and 4£ feet high; the other is some 10 feet long, 5J feet wide, and 3|
feet high. These structures, no doubt, served for separate graves, like
the pits in the domed tombs of Mycenae and Vaphio (see pp. 126, 130);
in the Thorieus vault, indeed, we find the sunken pit along with the raised
sarcophagus. There are three of these pits, one of them — containing
Fig. 163. Raised Grave within the same Tomb
human bones and covered with slabs — being partly built over by one of
the structures in question. While the " sarcophagus " is thus shown to
be later than the pit, both are clearly of Mycenaean date. The finds in
this tomb include four glazed vases, a plain gold ring, a bronze mirror, a
leaden disk, half of a small ivory box carved with spirals, rosettes of
glass paste, stone arrow-heads, and a white marble object resembling in
form the lamps found at Mycenae.
Remains as old as those of the earlier Thorieus period have also been
found in the neighborhood of Kapandriti, near the ruins of ancient