Ægean archæeology; an introduction to the archæeology of prehistoric Greece . great beehive tombs or tholoi, known as the Treasuries of Atreus and Klytaimnestra. Theexistence of these tholoi, and their reputed purpose astreasuries, was known to Pausanias, who mentions Treasury of Atreus had always been known andopen, but was now finally cleared by Schliemann ; thatof Klytaimnestra was discovered by him now, andpartly excavated at the expense of his Greek wife. Thefirst is in comparatively perfect preservation, wonderfulto relate ; the second, smaller and less well built, hassuffered.:
Ægean archæeology; an introduction to the archæeology of prehistoric Greece . great beehive tombs or tholoi, known as the Treasuries of Atreus and Klytaimnestra. Theexistence of these tholoi, and their reputed purpose astreasuries, was known to Pausanias, who mentions Treasury of Atreus had always been known andopen, but was now finally cleared by Schliemann ; thatof Klytaimnestra was discovered by him now, andpartly excavated at the expense of his Greek wife. Thefirst is in comparatively perfect preservation, wonderfulto relate ; the second, smaller and less well built, hassuffered.: the crown of the tholos-xooi having fallen Treasury has indeed lost the two great pilastersof grey-green stone that seemed to support the heavyarchitrave of its entrance-door, but the loss is hardlynoticed, so impressed are we at first visit by the tre-mendous character of the building itself. The interior,though but 50 feet in height, is more impressivethan anything Egypt has to show, and far moreimpressive, in my opinion, than the interior chamber /•LA IE V. HriUih Mum hi: Illl AK MNXENAKoi IliK Tkkam; LV OF Atki-;us THE EXCAVATIONS 15 of the Great Pyramid. For here we have an artof building more developed than that of of this more later. The missing pillars (or thegreater part of them) may be seen in the BritishMuseum, and it is a curious story how they came the beginning of the nineteenth century they weretransported from Greece to Ireland by the thenMarquess of Sligo, and remained unknown at hiscountry-seat in the West till about ten years ago, whentheir true character was recognized, and they were verysuitably presented by the present Marquess to theBritish Museum, where they now form the chiefmonument preserved in the Archaic Room (PI. V).The columns are restored to shew their original height,and the proper places of the few fragments that stillremain in Greece (one formed the doorstep of amosque in Turkish Athens for many years) are i
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