494 PELOPONNESUS. 
CHAP, wherewith the interior surface of the cone 
formerly lined. But allowing that the whole of 
the inward sheathing consisted of bronze plates, 
what has this fact to do with the subterraneous 
cells or dwellings (viroyatoc, otxo&opvparct) where 
the treasures of Atreus were deposited ? Cells of 
bronze were consistent with the antient customs 
of all Argolis: there was a Cell of this description 
at Argos, used for the incarceration of Danae ' : 
a similar repository existed in the Citadel of 
Mycence, said to have been the hiding-place of 
Eurystheus, when in fear of Hercules*. But this 
Sepulchre is without the walls of the Acropolis; 
nor can it be credited that any sovereign of 
Mycente would construct a treasury without his 
Citadel, fortified as it was by Cyclopean walls. 
PausaniaSy by whom alone this subterraneous 
treasury of Atreus is mentioned, clearly and in- 
disputably places it within the Citadel, close by 
the Sepulchre of the same monarch. Having 
passed the gate of the city, and noticed the 
Lions over the lintel, he speaks of the Cyclopean 
wall surrounding the city, and describes the 
(1) Vid. Pausan. in Corinth, c. 23. p. 164. Ed. Kuhnit, 
(2) Apollodvrus, lib. ii. c. 4. Goett. 1782. 
