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been planned about the time of the transference of the royal and princely
remains to the site just outside the old wall line. The Lions' Gate, which
belongs to this new work, shows the ' antithetic scheme' of lions (or other

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Fig. 47. The Grave Circle at Mycenae and its Surroundings, showing the Bulge
in the Enceinte Walls. (Based on plans ok Belger, Karo, and B. S. A.)

animals) heraldically grouped on either side of a column that was current
to an exceptional degree in the last half of the First Late Minoan Period.
It is probably the work of an artist who had studied in the insular school,
and its roughnesses had been doubtless finished off with a coatino- of thin
stucco, to which brilliant colouring had been applied.

This extension of the citadel wall had seemingly been originally planned
simply to include the plot containing the new sepulchral vaults and other
graves originally made there, like the Sixth, only separated from it by

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