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 426 Primitive Greece: Mycenian Art. square room on the right. For obvious reasons, the length of the dromos cannot be measured ; but a couple of stones left by the demarch of Skripu proves that the old passage measured in breadth five metres eleven centimetres. The height of the entrance gate is five metres forty-four centimetres, two metres seventy centimetres broad at the bottom, and two metres forty- three centimetres at the top ; that is to say, its dimensions are a trifle less than those of its Mycenian fellow. The lintel, on the other hand, is very much smaller, being only five metres in length (Fig. i6o). The diameter of the main chamber is r i6i — Door of second chamber V ew talcen from hec cnln chamber om oi metre. ctr. fourteen metres,' or fifty centimetres less than in the grave of Atreus. A door, six feet eleven and a half inches high, three feet nine inches broad above, and three feet eleven and a half inches below, leads from the circular chamber into the square room adjoining it (Fig. i6i)." Its height is two metres forty ' The stale in which the monument was then found may be gathered from DODWELL {Classical Tour), as well as Views and Descriptions of Cyclopaan and Pelasgic Remains. He gives an inner view of the building. ^ The builder was hardly successful with his circle ; thus, the diameter of the circular chamber, measured from north to south, is thirteen metres eighty-four centimetres, and fourteen metres five centimetres from cast to west.