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58 THE MYCENAEAN AGE
angles; the one set is colored gray and white, the other red
and blue, each of the white fields being filled up by a small
star. The horizontal surface connecting the two is colored
blue. At the top a band of spirals, painted white, with blue
dots in the centre, and inclosed by red and blue fines, runs
around the hearth."
The floor is in the main of concrete, laid off in squares
by incised lines as at Tiryns, but along the walls runs a
wide border of flagstones, such as we have already noted
in the anteroom. The walls, again, were plastered and
frescoed. These frescoes are distributed in horizontal
bands, with a wide range of design, including not only
linear motives but figure subjects. Indeed, we can almost
piece together a great composition in which hoplites and
horses (very like camels) play a conspicuous part.1
The south side of the court is destroyed, but its north
wall is still standing to the height of 7 feet 10 inches. This
The Men's *s ^a^ UP lu ^g^3,1* courses of dressed sandstone
Court blocks, with the clay still showing in the joints.
Not only so, but between the two lower courses there is
also a horizontal beam as in the palace walls at Tiryns.
This tie-beam is quite unnecessary here, where the courses
are already horizontal, and is to be explained as a survival
from the earlier rubble masonry.2
Part of the courtyard was covered by the foundations of
the temple until late in 1893. On clearing it then, three
stone bases were found which had undoubtedly fallen from
its north wall. This indicates the existence there of a
three-pillared portico opening upon the court, exactly as at
the north end of the men's court at Tiryns.
1 See Epk. Arch,, 1877, Plate IL
2 Keichel (Ueber Horn. Waffen, p. 141), recognizes the same construction in
the walls represented in the Siege Scene, Fig. 95.
angles; the one set is colored gray and white, the other red
and blue, each of the white fields being filled up by a small
star. The horizontal surface connecting the two is colored
blue. At the top a band of spirals, painted white, with blue
dots in the centre, and inclosed by red and blue fines, runs
around the hearth."
The floor is in the main of concrete, laid off in squares
by incised lines as at Tiryns, but along the walls runs a
wide border of flagstones, such as we have already noted
in the anteroom. The walls, again, were plastered and
frescoed. These frescoes are distributed in horizontal
bands, with a wide range of design, including not only
linear motives but figure subjects. Indeed, we can almost
piece together a great composition in which hoplites and
horses (very like camels) play a conspicuous part.1
The south side of the court is destroyed, but its north
wall is still standing to the height of 7 feet 10 inches. This
The Men's *s ^a^ UP lu ^g^3,1* courses of dressed sandstone
Court blocks, with the clay still showing in the joints.
Not only so, but between the two lower courses there is
also a horizontal beam as in the palace walls at Tiryns.
This tie-beam is quite unnecessary here, where the courses
are already horizontal, and is to be explained as a survival
from the earlier rubble masonry.2
Part of the courtyard was covered by the foundations of
the temple until late in 1893. On clearing it then, three
stone bases were found which had undoubtedly fallen from
its north wall. This indicates the existence there of a
three-pillared portico opening upon the court, exactly as at
the north end of the men's court at Tiryns.
1 See Epk. Arch,, 1877, Plate IL
2 Keichel (Ueber Horn. Waffen, p. 141), recognizes the same construction in
the walls represented in the Siege Scene, Fig. 95.