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side. The masonry ofthe curving dome in the one called the Treasuryof Atreus is in an almost perfect state of pres-ervation. A small chamber leads from the maincircular room wherein probably the body was de-posited, and in one of the tombs, possibly, the bodyof Klytaimnestra may have lain, doomed… … Lion Gate narrow passage leading to the citadel. On eitherside rise walls made of huge blocks of stone, whichonly Cyclopean hands could have handled, and be-fore us stands still firm and strong the Lion Gate, INTRODUCTION 47 the earliest known sculpture in Greece. -Pausaniassays: Some remains of…
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