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 398 Primitive Greece: Mycenian Ar' second chamber has been rebated ; whence it would appear that a door or rather a closing slab had once stood here. The entrance to the first chamber is walled up to within a little of the lintel, with stones laid in mud. In the back chambers alone have human bones been found. Eastward of this grave, a little farther off, a very similar vault has been excavated ; but it has only a single chamber, and nothing to speak of in the way of furniture, both tombs having been looted in antiquity, when the closing slab was removed along 143. — PEaii of loml^s, Spala. with objects placed there in honour of the dead. Nothing was left except debris, which, though minute, enable us to establish a strong family likeness between these finds and the grave furniture at Mycenae. It is doubtful, however, if in their pristine condition they could challenge the Mycenian treasures. From the fact that every item from this grave was found in the outer passage, it is supposed that the thieves halted there that they might divide the spoils. Some of the things were of so diminutive a size as to be easily dropped in the dark as they were passed from