RUINS OK ORCHOMENUS. 213 
dome has fallen: a single block of marble over chap. 
I • V 
this entrance resembles, both as to its size and ^ , ^ ', _. 
form, the immense slab covering the portal of 
tlie Tomb of Agamemnon at MvcENiE. There 
can be no doubt that this ruin corresponds with ireamry 
, . /> 1 m of MinyaT. 
tne account given by Pausanias of the Treasury 
OF MiNYAS. Enough yet remains to prove that 
the covering was a dome; and the description 
given of it by that author' will also confirm this Proof of 
observation. Therefore, those Critics who have qultyVf 
disputed the existence of domes in very antient frXte". 
architecture, maintaining that the Tomb of Aga- ^^'^^" 
memnon, being constructed by horizontal pro- 
jections of stone, does not constitute what may 
properly be considered as a dome, will find a 
stumbling-block in the Treasury ofMinyas. It is 
true that this building was considered, even by 
the Antients themselves, as one of the wonders 
of the world' ; equally worthy of admiration with 
the Walls of Tiryns, and the Pyramids of Egypt \ 
In a different direction from the monastery, 
C2) AiVot* fill I'eyaffrai, a^r^jjio, 2f Tig/iffftf ifm aurZ, xe^ufyi o\ ei/x is 
eiyxf «|u avwvtttvjj, tov ?e ccturdTO) rut XKut (fafftv ao/jLoiixv cravTi iiyai r^ 
ti!ietiilj.nfta.Ti. VaUT. liceol. c. 33. p. 786. eA.Kuhnii. 
(3) Ibid. c. SG. p. 783. and in c. S8, he says, Qr.a-av^i; "Si o Htti»u 
iecvftA rutii rS 'EXXaJ* o» xa) T*;* tri^wd tvlitis ilim^ct, -rtriir.rai r^i^tt 
(4) Ibid. c. S6. p. Tfo. 
