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48 THE MYCENAEAN AGE
ber. Each of these doors must have had a separate door-
case (about a foot thick), into "which the open door fitted
The Pro- so as not *° narrow the entrance. The ante-
domos chamber itself (of about the same dimensions as the
vestibule) has a single door in the west wall leading toward
the bath-room, but there is no direct communication on the
east with the women's apartments. From this fore-hall, a
single doorway (6.} feet wide) opens into the megaron. Here
the great breccia doorsill is still in place, but without the
usual pivot-hole, thus showing that the doorway was closed
only by a curtain.
The Great Hall incloses an area of about 1235 square
feet.1 Its roof was supported in part by four wooden
The pillars, whose stone bases are still in place, as
Megaron indicated in the Plan. In the centre of the space
defined by these pillars was the great circular hearth, now
unfortunately destroyed, although we can still clearly distin-
guish its position.
In the west wall of the vestibule, as already noted, is a
door opening into a narrow corridor which leads by several
The Bath- zigzags to a small square chamber (8). The floor
room ■ of this chamber is made of one great limestone
block, measuring about 13 by 11 by 2| feet, with an esti-
mated weight of some 25 tons. Dowel-holes disposed in
pairs at recurring intervals, except where space is reserved
for the door, indicate that the walls were wainscoted with
wooden panels; and there is a square gutter cut in the
flooring-block at the north-east corner of the chamber and
connecting with a stone pipe which reaches through the
eastern wall. These arrangements prove beyond a doubt
that we have here found that indispensable appointment of
1 "It exceeds in size the cellas of many Greek temples, — e. g., that of the
Theseioii at Athens covers only 817 square feet." — Dorpfeld.
ber. Each of these doors must have had a separate door-
case (about a foot thick), into "which the open door fitted
The Pro- so as not *° narrow the entrance. The ante-
domos chamber itself (of about the same dimensions as the
vestibule) has a single door in the west wall leading toward
the bath-room, but there is no direct communication on the
east with the women's apartments. From this fore-hall, a
single doorway (6.} feet wide) opens into the megaron. Here
the great breccia doorsill is still in place, but without the
usual pivot-hole, thus showing that the doorway was closed
only by a curtain.
The Great Hall incloses an area of about 1235 square
feet.1 Its roof was supported in part by four wooden
The pillars, whose stone bases are still in place, as
Megaron indicated in the Plan. In the centre of the space
defined by these pillars was the great circular hearth, now
unfortunately destroyed, although we can still clearly distin-
guish its position.
In the west wall of the vestibule, as already noted, is a
door opening into a narrow corridor which leads by several
The Bath- zigzags to a small square chamber (8). The floor
room ■ of this chamber is made of one great limestone
block, measuring about 13 by 11 by 2| feet, with an esti-
mated weight of some 25 tons. Dowel-holes disposed in
pairs at recurring intervals, except where space is reserved
for the door, indicate that the walls were wainscoted with
wooden panels; and there is a square gutter cut in the
flooring-block at the north-east corner of the chamber and
connecting with a stone pipe which reaches through the
eastern wall. These arrangements prove beyond a doubt
that we have here found that indispensable appointment of
1 "It exceeds in size the cellas of many Greek temples, — e. g., that of the
Theseioii at Athens covers only 817 square feet." — Dorpfeld.