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THE PALACE 49
the Homeric palace, — the bath-room. Fortunately, too, we
have found fragments sufficient to determine the pattern,
material and decoration of the bath-tub. The pattern is
very like that in use to-day, but the tub is made The
of coarse red clay not susceptible of a high polish. Bath_tub
It has a thick rim and stout handles on the sides; and the
decoration inside and out is composed of stripes and spirals
painted in white on the red ground.
From the bath-room we pass by zigzagging corridors
{777) an^ several doors quite around the megaron into
another court (N), which communicates more ^
directly with the fore-court (F) by the passage Apa!T's
(hh). This quadrangle (some 60 by 30 feet), with mente
two small porticoes on the west and north-west and traces
of benches against the wall, is taken to be the Women's
Court. The Women's Hall, opening upon it, is smaller
and simpler than that of the men. There is but one
fore-hall, an open portico (18 by 20 feet), leading by a
single doorway into the hall (20 by 26^ feet), which has a
square central hearth but no pillars. The portico has a
door at each end opening into a corridor, which runs
around three sides of the hall and communicates with
various chambers — one of them apparently provided with
a stairway leading to an upper story or terraee. The suite
immediately adjoining the women's hall on the east (e), Dr.
Dorpfeld takes for the Royal Bedchamber answering to the
Gd2,aLuog ea%a?oc, of Odysseus and Penelope.1 Adjoining
the Women's Court on the south-east lies an open square or
fore-court; and beyond this again a mere chaos of inter-
secting walls from which it is impossible to work out any
certain plan.
Still the structure as a whole offers a ground-plan that is
•y, xxi., 8 ff.
the Homeric palace, — the bath-room. Fortunately, too, we
have found fragments sufficient to determine the pattern,
material and decoration of the bath-tub. The pattern is
very like that in use to-day, but the tub is made The
of coarse red clay not susceptible of a high polish. Bath_tub
It has a thick rim and stout handles on the sides; and the
decoration inside and out is composed of stripes and spirals
painted in white on the red ground.
From the bath-room we pass by zigzagging corridors
{777) an^ several doors quite around the megaron into
another court (N), which communicates more ^
directly with the fore-court (F) by the passage Apa!T's
(hh). This quadrangle (some 60 by 30 feet), with mente
two small porticoes on the west and north-west and traces
of benches against the wall, is taken to be the Women's
Court. The Women's Hall, opening upon it, is smaller
and simpler than that of the men. There is but one
fore-hall, an open portico (18 by 20 feet), leading by a
single doorway into the hall (20 by 26^ feet), which has a
square central hearth but no pillars. The portico has a
door at each end opening into a corridor, which runs
around three sides of the hall and communicates with
various chambers — one of them apparently provided with
a stairway leading to an upper story or terraee. The suite
immediately adjoining the women's hall on the east (e), Dr.
Dorpfeld takes for the Royal Bedchamber answering to the
Gd2,aLuog ea%a?oc, of Odysseus and Penelope.1 Adjoining
the Women's Court on the south-east lies an open square or
fore-court; and beyond this again a mere chaos of inter-
secting walls from which it is impossible to work out any
certain plan.
Still the structure as a whole offers a ground-plan that is
•y, xxi., 8 ff.