164 LEBADEA. 
CHAP, chamber of stone, containing a stone bench. This, 
v-Z,^^!-^ according to Pausanias, may have been the 
MlemofXe- throne of Mnemosyne : it was near to the Adytum; 
where those, who came from consulting* the 
oracle, being seated ', underwent the necessary 
interrogatories. This chamber is five feet ten 
inches from the ground. The whole of it is 
hewn in the soUd rock, Hke the sepulchres of 
Telmessus in Asia Minor; being twelve feet eight 
inches in length, eleven feet three inches in 
width, and eight feet eight inches high. The 
stone bench within is eight feet nine inches 
long, fourteen inches wide, and eighteen inches 
in height. There are two niches, one on either 
side of the opening to this chamber; and seven 
V others to the left of it, in the face of the 
Stoma of rock. Immediately below the chamber, a 
the Adi/- •' ^ 
t^im. little towards the left hand, is the Stoma, or 
sacred aperture of the Adytum. It is smalj 
and low, and shaped like an oven : and this 
Pausanias affirms to have been the form of the 
artificial masonry adapted to its mouth : it is, in 
fact, barely capacious enough to admit the 
passage of a man's body. The inhabitants of 
Lehadea refused to Monsieur Fauvel, of Athens, 
the permission of removing the rubbish from 
(1) KcJi^Dva-tt iri S^omi Mvnfzt^ur/j; nxXoviMioy. Faus. BwoC, c. 59. 
p. 792. cd.A'uhnii. 
