Atkinson, Thomas [Mitarb.]: Excavations at Phylakopi in Melos (London, 1904)

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T. D. ATKINSON

Perhaps the most perfect building (if it may be considered as one
building) is J 2 : 21, 22; J 3 : 2, 3, 7 (see Figs. 32, 33 and Fig. 59 YZ, 2).
A porcb (7), entered apparently from a court or corridor, leads to a room 2.
To the right a passage 3 leads to two small rooms 21, 22, at the back ; tbe
division wall between these two rooms contains a doorway d subsequently
blocked; the eastern part of the wall has disappeared. The walls of this
house reinain Standing to an average height of 2"3 m. (about seven feet six

Fici. 32.—Plan op Housf. ov Period II.

inches)^and probably they were not much higher originally; they average -70
metre thick, and are covered with an earthy plaster. There are no traces of
windows. The plan has some resemblance to that of the palace of the
succeeding period.

The building H 2: 331; H 3 : 2, 3 (Fig. 34) consists of two long
narrow rooms 2 and 3. A third room, or perhaps open space, 33 at the
back, is entered from room 2 by the doorway Ii. There are also remains of a

Wrongly lettered 23 on PI. I.