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The Domed-Tomb at Okchomenos. 42; centimetres, by three metres seventy-four centimetres long, and two metres seventy-five centimetres wide (Fig. 162). This second vault is particularly interesting from its having preserved its beautiful internal decoration and its walls intact. Had it been excavated some fifteen years earlier, it would have been found practically as it came from the hands of the Minyan builder. Its entrance was blocked by masses of rubbish heaped up high above the lintel, so that, not suspecting its existence, nobody has tried lo force an entrance since antiquity. Schlie- Fio. 1 6 z. —Transverse scclion of side-di amber. mann was told by the inhabitants of Skripu, that in 1870 the earth had suddenly given way with a great noise, which seemed to come from the interior of the hill. Then was formed a deep hole precisely above the chamber, caused by the ceiling, which had fallen in under the pressure of superincumbent masses of rubbish. The inner construction of the chamber is as follows. Walls of small unprepared stones laid in clay mortar lean against the sides, whilst slabs horizontally placed form the ceiling (Figs. 158, 163). These stones were lying broken on the floor. The