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 ToMiJS OF THE Hera:um and Nauplia. 383 is nine metres seventy centimetres. The objects found in it are of no consequence ; some tiny gold and glass pieces, broken implements of stone, bronze weapons and vases, scraps of Mycenian pottery, make up the tale. Side by side with these, in the vault and passage, broken pottery, amongst which are two terra-cotta bits stamped with Greek letters of the fifth or fourth Fig. 130. — Plan of the domed-lomb near to ihc llcitcum. century and some scraps of iron implements, has been picked up. The furniture belonging to the first inmates of the grave was plundered in antiquity, and the vault was utilized again at a much later date ; when, according to Stamakis, the three rect- angular pits shown in the plan, apparently closed by slabs, were sunk. That the tomb was re-opened for new occupiers is indubitable ; the actual pits, however, may after all belong to the