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The Dohed-Tomus of Attica. pyramid, rest on the door-posts, which hold aloft the upper portion of the front wall. Internally we find a triangular cavity, as over every Mycenian entrance ; with this difference, that here it was subsequently filled in with smaller stones (Fig. 146), for as the bad masonry had little coherence, the mason was at his wits* end how to close the top of his triangle. The dimensions here are less than at Mycen^ne and Orcho- menos. The passage which gives access to the chamber is three metres wide and twenty-six metres long, lis entrance, as usual, has been walled up with dry stones. In breadth the doorway measures one metre fifty-five centimetres, and three metres thirty centimetres in height, up to the lintel. The diameter of the enclosure is eight metres twenty-five centimetres, and its altitude VOL. I. D D