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THE MYCENAEAN AGE
If the visitor to Mycenae enter the citadel by the Lions'
Gate, and turn to the south, twenty paces more will bring
him to the entrance of a unique circular inclo-
Cemetery at sure. It is 87 feet in diameter and fenced in by a
Mycenae .
double row ot limestone slabs set vertically in two
concentric rings. These rings are about three feet apart,
and the space between them was originally filled in with
Fig. 32. The Grave Circle at Mycenae
small stones and earth, and then covered with cross-slabs of
the same kind with the uprights, six of which were found
in place.1 The result is a wall some 4| feet thick and 3 to
5 feet high, the variation being due to the slope of the
rock from east to west.
1 These covering slabs (according to Schliemann) " are firmly fitted in and
consolidated by means of notches, forming a mortise and tenon joint" (My-
cenae, p. 124) ; but Belger has recently undertaken to show that the notches
were for wooden beams, as in the covering of the graves. — Jahrl., 1895,
p. 114 f.
THE MYCENAEAN AGE
If the visitor to Mycenae enter the citadel by the Lions'
Gate, and turn to the south, twenty paces more will bring
him to the entrance of a unique circular inclo-
Cemetery at sure. It is 87 feet in diameter and fenced in by a
Mycenae .
double row ot limestone slabs set vertically in two
concentric rings. These rings are about three feet apart,
and the space between them was originally filled in with
Fig. 32. The Grave Circle at Mycenae
small stones and earth, and then covered with cross-slabs of
the same kind with the uprights, six of which were found
in place.1 The result is a wall some 4| feet thick and 3 to
5 feet high, the variation being due to the slope of the
rock from east to west.
1 These covering slabs (according to Schliemann) " are firmly fitted in and
consolidated by means of notches, forming a mortise and tenon joint" (My-
cenae, p. 124) ; but Belger has recently undertaken to show that the notches
were for wooden beams, as in the covering of the graves. — Jahrl., 1895,
p. 114 f.