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52 THE MYCENAEAN AGE
to form a kind of mosaic, but in the inner rooms they
Flooring are ^tfcle used, and the smoother floors (e. g., of
and Uoors ^lQ men's \Vd\\ with its vestibule and the women's
hall) are laid off in checkers by incised lines. Apparently
Fig. 13. Wall Painting- (Tiryns)
the checkers were painted red, and defined by narrow bands
of blue, thus giving somewhat the effect of a carpet
pattern. The door-sills were either of wood or of stone —
in the latter case always of a single block,1 while the door-
1 In Homer the stone threshold leads, though the poet mentions also sills of
oak, ash, and bronze. " We find in Tiryns stone and wooden door-sills ; twenty-
two well-preserved stone specimens lie still in situ • the wooden are gone, but
remains of charcoal testify to their place. Of the twenty-two extant door-sills,
only six are of breccia, the rest of close-grained limestone. The kind of wood
in the other sills is not known, nor whether perhaps some of them were covered
with bronze plates." — Dorpfeld, Tiryns, 276,
to form a kind of mosaic, but in the inner rooms they
Flooring are ^tfcle used, and the smoother floors (e. g., of
and Uoors ^lQ men's \Vd\\ with its vestibule and the women's
hall) are laid off in checkers by incised lines. Apparently
Fig. 13. Wall Painting- (Tiryns)
the checkers were painted red, and defined by narrow bands
of blue, thus giving somewhat the effect of a carpet
pattern. The door-sills were either of wood or of stone —
in the latter case always of a single block,1 while the door-
1 In Homer the stone threshold leads, though the poet mentions also sills of
oak, ash, and bronze. " We find in Tiryns stone and wooden door-sills ; twenty-
two well-preserved stone specimens lie still in situ • the wooden are gone, but
remains of charcoal testify to their place. Of the twenty-two extant door-sills,
only six are of breccia, the rest of close-grained limestone. The kind of wood
in the other sills is not known, nor whether perhaps some of them were covered
with bronze plates." — Dorpfeld, Tiryns, 276,