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MVCEX.K. 329 covered at the entrance of the acropolis are to be identified, as he persistently maintained, with those mentioned by Pausanias. For reasons often adduced before, neither shall we enumerate the contents of each grave, in that they will find ample recogni- tion in a separate chapter by and by. We will confine our words to one remark : the impression left by close inspection of the contents of these graves — now carefully labelled and classified in the cases of the Central Museum at Athens, where everybody can study them — is not in accord with Schliemann's conception, based, as he deemed it to be. on his researches and .j.Il- froin Tomb IV. Aelual si discoveries.' He was inclined to think that each grave had served but once, and that the interments were simultaneous or nearly so. But as we have shown above, the facility with which the graves could be re-opened, the position, here of the bodies, there of the different aspect of similar offerings in the same pit, suggest successive inhumations. The workmanship of the single masks in the fourth grave offers enough variety to preclude the idea that they were made by one hand or at the same time ; these shades of difference are even more marked from one grave ' The relation the graves bear the one to the other is carefully and critically set forth by Schiichardt {Schiioiiatiii's Ansgratungeii). His conclusions arc accepted bym. ^ ScHLXHARUT, SchlUmaiin'i