History of art in primitive Greece; Mycenian art from the French of Georges Perrot ... and Charles Chipiez. Illustrated with five hundred and forty-four engravings in the text, and twenty coloured plates (1894)
Perrot, Georges, 1832-1914, Chipiez, Charles, 1835-1901, Gonino, I · London, Chapman and Hall, Limited · leaf 393
wing : When the last body was placed in the vault, the doorway was walled up with dry stones, and the passage in front of it filled with earth, d his was rammed down in such a way that in time it almost acquired the consistency of tufa, hence to-day the pick-axe has to be em- ployed in breaking it.… … citadel circuit, by the Lions Gate, where the Mycenian princes were domiciled ; to these may be added the bee-hive graves, the presumption being so strong for two at least out of the number as to amount almost to certainty. For whom except the rulers of a great hegemony would buildings, accounted…
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