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The Domed-Tombr of Attica. 397 (Fig. 142). The chamber was entered through the roof, which has fallen in and filled the vault with earth and rubbish six or seven metres deep. Mixed with the soil and ruin were objects which encouraged the excavators to clear the whole hypogaeum, so as to bring to light the internal arrangement. The tomb is approached by an open path, which follows the incline of the Fig. 14Z.— Penpecii hill for a distance of twenty-two metres twenty centimetres, and two metres forty-eight centimetres broad. It abuts on another open and narrower passage, three metres long and one metre five centimetres broad (Fig. 143), leading into the largest of the three chambers which make up the vault (Fig. 144). It measures four metres ninety-five centimetres in height, four metres fifty centimetres in breadth, and six metres in length. The other two are a little lower and smaller. The rock between the first and