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THE MYCENAEAN AGE
parallel walls begin to overlap gradually, and so form a roof
shaped like a pointed arch.1 These galleries were ob-
viously designed for storing provisions, munitions of war,
and the like. The southern gallery lies at a level of 24 feet
6 inches below the surface of the upper citadel. The cor-
ridor is some 50 feet long, and from 5 feet to 5 feet 7 inches
broad; at the west end it is completely closed; the east end
ive View of Gallery
is lighted by a sort of window which, starting with the full
breadth of the corridor, narrows down to a four-inch loop-
hole. The two chambers on the west have a depth of 17^
feet, the three on the east of only 14| feet, while the uni-
form breadth is about lOf feet, with partition walls 6J feet
thick. The six chambers in the eastern wall are somewhat
smaller, and the corridor — whose southern end-wall is now
broken down — appears to have been closed at both ends.
1 "From within, the roofs of these galleries look like real vaults of pointed
arehes, whereas they are really not vaults at all. Some stones, indeed, may
exercise an inward thrust, and in some places the uppermost stone may really
act as the keystone of an arch ; but these galleries cannot be regarded as real
arches because, generally speaking, there is no lateral thrust." — Diirpfeld,
Tiryns, p. 83.
THE MYCENAEAN AGE
parallel walls begin to overlap gradually, and so form a roof
shaped like a pointed arch.1 These galleries were ob-
viously designed for storing provisions, munitions of war,
and the like. The southern gallery lies at a level of 24 feet
6 inches below the surface of the upper citadel. The cor-
ridor is some 50 feet long, and from 5 feet to 5 feet 7 inches
broad; at the west end it is completely closed; the east end
ive View of Gallery
is lighted by a sort of window which, starting with the full
breadth of the corridor, narrows down to a four-inch loop-
hole. The two chambers on the west have a depth of 17^
feet, the three on the east of only 14| feet, while the uni-
form breadth is about lOf feet, with partition walls 6J feet
thick. The six chambers in the eastern wall are somewhat
smaller, and the corridor — whose southern end-wall is now
broken down — appears to have been closed at both ends.
1 "From within, the roofs of these galleries look like real vaults of pointed
arehes, whereas they are really not vaults at all. Some stones, indeed, may
exercise an inward thrust, and in some places the uppermost stone may really
act as the keystone of an arch ; but these galleries cannot be regarded as real
arches because, generally speaking, there is no lateral thrust." — Diirpfeld,
Tiryns, p. 83.