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 4 6 HISTORY OF ART IN ANTIQUITY. (Fig. 14). The roof had already fallen in, but the sides were intact, and their present state is due to shafts sunk in the centre of the mass by T^xier. Before doing so, however, he had the tumulus carefully measured. The annexed woodcuts, as well as Texier's verbal description, will enable the reader to grasp its inner arrangements. 1 Its diameter is 33 m. 60 c., or 105 m. 537 c. round. It forms a perfect circle, and is wholly built of small stones, laid out without mortar (Fig. 15). The centre is occupied by a rectangular chamber 3 m. 55 c. by 2 m. 17 c., and 2 m. 86 c. in FIG. 14. View of tomb of Tantalus before the excavations. TixiER, Description, Plate CXXX. height under the centre of the arch (Fig. 16). The courses are horizontal throughout, and on average from 55 c. to 20 c. high. The vaulted appearance of the chamber is due to the corbel arrangement of the masonry ; but there is no true arch, and, as a natural consequence, there is no key, the vacant space at the top being closed by a huge stone set on the last two courses (Fig. i7). 2 The mortuary chamber had no passage, and was 1 TEXIER, Description de FAsie Mineure, torn. ii. pp. 253, 254. We have used WEBER'S Sipylos, pp. 19, 20, to check Tdxier's narrative. 3 Fig. 17 is after Weber, he. at., Plate I. He was the first to notice that the curve formed by the ogee begins from the base of the chamber, and not, as stated