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60 THE MYCENAEAN AGE
Farther to the west (beyond the outer court mentioned
above) there was a second palace gate (V) probably
intended for communication with the women's
Postern and , .
Women's apartments as the great staircase on the south-
Quarter ,
west served tor the ascent to the mam court and
the men's hall. And, in fact, the rooms to the north of
this court and the megaron, so far as their scant remains
enable us to make out, appear to have belonged to the
women's quarter with its dependencies.
As at Tiryns, then, we have here two distinct suites, one
for the men, the other for the women. These communi-
cate with each other, first by the outer court and two
passages, and secondly by a door in the north wall of the
vestibule of the men's hall, so that one could pass much
more directly than at Tiryns from the men's apartments to
the women's.
The walls of the palace at Mycenae are built like those
at Tiryns, although less use is made of crude bricks. Lime
Construe- *s einpl°ye<2 as at Tiryns for plastering the walls,
cementing the floors and the like, but never as a
binding material. No roof-tiles are found, but instead
fragments of a layer of clay and lime, still showing the
impression of reeds and twigs. Hence the certain conclu-
sion that the roofs were flat like terraces and formed very
much as Dorpfeld conceived them at Tiryns—namely, by
laying a ceiling of wooden beams from wall to wall, covering
these with a bed of reeds or twigs, and this again with two
layers, one of clay and the other of lime. The megaron at
Mycenae would be roofed and lighted, as at Tiryns, on
the clerestory principle. The door-sills were for the most
part of stone, but the door-posts of wood on stone bases.
The wooden doors turned by their pivots in grooves in the
threshold and lintel, as noted in our description of the
Farther to the west (beyond the outer court mentioned
above) there was a second palace gate (V) probably
intended for communication with the women's
Postern and , .
Women's apartments as the great staircase on the south-
Quarter ,
west served tor the ascent to the mam court and
the men's hall. And, in fact, the rooms to the north of
this court and the megaron, so far as their scant remains
enable us to make out, appear to have belonged to the
women's quarter with its dependencies.
As at Tiryns, then, we have here two distinct suites, one
for the men, the other for the women. These communi-
cate with each other, first by the outer court and two
passages, and secondly by a door in the north wall of the
vestibule of the men's hall, so that one could pass much
more directly than at Tiryns from the men's apartments to
the women's.
The walls of the palace at Mycenae are built like those
at Tiryns, although less use is made of crude bricks. Lime
Construe- *s einpl°ye<2 as at Tiryns for plastering the walls,
cementing the floors and the like, but never as a
binding material. No roof-tiles are found, but instead
fragments of a layer of clay and lime, still showing the
impression of reeds and twigs. Hence the certain conclu-
sion that the roofs were flat like terraces and formed very
much as Dorpfeld conceived them at Tiryns—namely, by
laying a ceiling of wooden beams from wall to wall, covering
these with a bed of reeds or twigs, and this again with two
layers, one of clay and the other of lime. The megaron at
Mycenae would be roofed and lighted, as at Tiryns, on
the clerestory principle. The door-sills were for the most
part of stone, but the door-posts of wood on stone bases.
The wooden doors turned by their pivots in grooves in the
threshold and lintel, as noted in our description of the