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 52 Primitive Greece: Mycenian Art. length of the Hntel. The dowel-holes found at the edge of the slab tell this tale very plainly {see PI. IV., near letter v) ; they would be meaningless unless meant to receive clamps for fastening thick metal sheets whose projection was kept a Fir. 260.— Tomb I. The several members of llie capilal joincfl logether. trifle below that of the corbelled slab. If the general propor- tions of the edifice be considered, the front wall has certainly lost something, but not much, of its original height ; several stones are missing from the course above the last line of clamps, and of another bed a single stone remains. There is