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THE PALACE
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the anterooms here are decidedly smaller. As at Tiryns,
the roof of the megaron was supported by four wooden
pillars, and in the centre of the square denned by their
stone bases we again find the circular hearth. Enough
remains to show that it was some 11 feet in diameter, and
raised by two low steps only 6 inches above the floor.
This hearth was made (as they are still made in the coun-
«"■" ,'. in s»j
fMSKt
Fig. 14. Heartli of the Palace at Mycenae
try districts) of beaten earth, and then overlaid with five
successive coats of stucco. Each of these had The
been painted, showing that the several coats were Klaaih
not laid on at once, but that the stucco and the paintings
were from time to time renewed. A view of this hearth
from a photograph is given here (Fig. 14), with Dr. Dorp-
feld's drawing of the exquisite design on the third layer,
which is thus described by Schuchhardt-Sellers: " The
vertical surface of each step is decorated with spherical tri-
57
the anterooms here are decidedly smaller. As at Tiryns,
the roof of the megaron was supported by four wooden
pillars, and in the centre of the square denned by their
stone bases we again find the circular hearth. Enough
remains to show that it was some 11 feet in diameter, and
raised by two low steps only 6 inches above the floor.
This hearth was made (as they are still made in the coun-
«"■" ,'. in s»j
fMSKt
Fig. 14. Heartli of the Palace at Mycenae
try districts) of beaten earth, and then overlaid with five
successive coats of stucco. Each of these had The
been painted, showing that the several coats were Klaaih
not laid on at once, but that the stucco and the paintings
were from time to time renewed. A view of this hearth
from a photograph is given here (Fig. 14), with Dr. Dorp-
feld's drawing of the exquisite design on the third layer,
which is thus described by Schuchhardt-Sellers: " The
vertical surface of each step is decorated with spherical tri-