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86 THE MYCENAEAN AGE
slabs, — while it might have offered comfortable sittings to
the Cyclopes who fenced the citadel, could hardly have
answered for men of ordinary, even heroic stature.
Reserving for the present the further discussion of the
character of this precinct, let us follow the explorer as he
Fig. 33. Plan of the Grave Circle
breaks into this charnel-house of the Heroic Age. The
mound itself has yielded quantities of the now familiar
Mycenaean pottery with terra-cotta idols, bronze knives,
stone implements and the like before the spade strikes the
first sure indices of the real nature of the place. These
slabs, — while it might have offered comfortable sittings to
the Cyclopes who fenced the citadel, could hardly have
answered for men of ordinary, even heroic stature.
Reserving for the present the further discussion of the
character of this precinct, let us follow the explorer as he
Fig. 33. Plan of the Grave Circle
breaks into this charnel-house of the Heroic Age. The
mound itself has yielded quantities of the now familiar
Mycenaean pottery with terra-cotta idols, bronze knives,
stone implements and the like before the spade strikes the
first sure indices of the real nature of the place. These