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TjiE Domed- ToMiis oi Attica. 403 tomb.' Treasure-seekers took upon themselves to prove the correctness of the assumption ; for when the Ephor Stais cleared it in 1890, he discovered that it had been entered from the top.* All he found in it were fragments of bronze weapons, broken Mycenian pottery, and human bones, which had seemingly- been cremated. The construction of this vault is even more slovenly than at Menidi ; the plan of the chamber, instead of Via. 147.— Plan Slid □r tombs, Eleusif being circular, is elliptical in form. As at Eleusis, the passage is partly covered. Another tomb is said to exist a little farther on, at the foot of the mountain, where depressions in the ground are supposed to mark the hollows left by its fallen cupola, whilst the saliences on the hill-side would represent the covering slabs of the dromos.^ Lacking precise indications, Stais failed to hit • MiLCHoFER, Berliner pliil. Wochenschrijt. ^ ^Xriof a'p^aiaXtiyii.'u^', 1890. ^ Letter of M. Mayer in if^r//«(rr //;//. Wochtnsclmft, Zf).