dromos impractical. At Thebes, the so-called 'Painted Chamber' tomb has two parallel dromoi, approaching two large chambers, connected by a doorway. From LH II-IIIA1 onwards, certain monumental chamber tombs had the façade of the stomion, and sometimes the walls of the thalamos, decorated with painted plaster. This phenomenon is particularly known in the Argolid, particularly at Mycenae and Prosymna, but examples are known from elsewhere, including Prosilio 2 and from Thebes. Over the course of the Late Helladic, a trend is observed for the length of the dromos to increase, both in absolute measurement and relative to the size of the thalamos. Tomb 505 from Mycenae, for example, has a dromos over 35m in length. This may be associated with an increasing desire to show wealth and power through a large, impressive tomb, or may reflect the growing importance of the dromos in funerary ritual. At the end of the period, however, in LH IIIC, the opposite trend is observed: dromoi become shorter and less attention appears to be paid to the carving and decoration of the façade of the stomion, perhaps indicating the declining importance of any rituals that took place there. So-called 'built chamber tombs', such as those at Thorikos and other examples at sites including Marathon, Portes and Mitrou, are similarly cut from rock but include masonry on the interior. These appear earlier than 'true' chamber tombs, often lack a dromos, and may have developed separately. Funerary practices Chamber tombs were generally used for multiple burial and re-used over multiple generations. Work at Ayia Sotira in the Nemea valley has highlighted the efforts made by those using the tombs to carry on re-using them, even when the tomb had partially collapsed and doing so was difficult. The tombs are often assumed to have been used for members of the same family, though solid evidence is lacking as to the precise kinship between people buried in the same tomb. There is tentative evidence for funerary processions towards Mycenaean chamber tombs; it has therefore often been assumed that the body would be transported to the tomb on a wheeled vehicle, though the location of some cemeteries around Mycenae indicates that at least the final part of this procession must sometimes have taken part on foot. Almost all Mycenaean burials in chamber tombs, particularly before LH IIIC, are inhumations rather than cremations, though post-Mycenaean cremation burials are sometimes found in