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The Domed-Tomb at Orchomenos. 425 lintel ; and every slab of the dromes, down to a couple or so, has gone to build the chapel at Skripu. Schh"emann found the chamber filled with rubbish and with blocks, some ten metres in thickness ; but the walls up to the eighth course, and in two or P O O'O O O O. 0/;|I three places up to the twelfth, were entire {Fig. 159). They are entirely composed of a dark-greenish calcareous schist, quarried in the vicinity of Lebadeia. The building, like the Treasury of Atreus, consists of a dromos, a domed-chamber, and a much smaller