502 PELOPONNESUS. 
CHAP. Some steps, whereof the traces are visible, 
v N ' originally conducted to the door. This entrance, 
built with all the colossal grandeur of Cycloptan 
architecture, is covered by a mass of breccia, of 
such prodigious size, that were it not for the 
testimony of others who have since visited the 
Tomb, an author, in simply stating its dimen- 
sions, might be supposed to exceed the truth. 
The door itself is not more than ten feet wide ; 
and it is shaped like the windows and doors of 
the Egyptian and earliest Grecian buildings, 
wider at the bottom than at the top ; forming a 
passage six yards long, covered by two stones. 
Enormous The slab now particularly alluded to, is the 
Lintel. . J 
innermost entablature; lying across the uprights 
of the portal ; extending many feet into the 
walls of the Tomb, on either side. This vast 
lintel is best seen by a person standing within 
the Tomb, who is looking back towards the 
entrance 1 : it consists of a coarse-grained 
breccia, finished almost to a polish : and the 
same siliceous aggregate may be observed in 
the mountains near Mycerue, as at Athens. We 
carefully measured this mass, and found it to 
equal twenty-seven feet in length, seventeen 
feet in width, and four feet' seven inches in 
(1) See Plate VI. of Cell's Itin. of Greece, facing p. 34. Lond. 1810. 
