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OLDEST WALLS
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Fig. 49. — Argivk Heraeum : View looking north upon the Cyclopean wall and Northeast
Stoa (III).
Stoa VI and the old wall), and as burial within the temenus was doubtless prohibited,
the evidence is strengthened that this old wall is a portion of that which originally
inclosed the sanctuary.
Further remains of very old walls are shown on Plate IV. lying just south of the
Cyclopean wall; these may be the ruins of dwelling-houses for the priestesses or attend-
ants. Other vestiffes of old stone work are distinguishable in the interior of the Second
Temple (V), indicating, at this most important point of the old temenus, the possible
position of the ancient altar, Avhich probably stood on or near this site long before the
construction of this temple.
These walls consisting of unworked small-sized stones, laid up as rough irregular rub-
ble without mortar, indicate a very primitive state of architectural art, similar to the
walls found in the lowest layers of Hissarlik, and, like these, they may have had super-
structures of sun-dried bricks.
CYCLOPEAN WALLS.
Next in chronological sequence are the massive Cyclopean walls which supported the
Upper Terrace (I) ; these are shown on Plate IV., and in the plan on Plate VIII., and
in elevation on Plate IX. (cf. Plate III. and Fig. 49). The walls resemble and are
doubtless coeval with the earliest walls of Tiryns, which Dr. Waldstein supposes to have
been built by Proetus about 1900 b. o.1 One of these huge, irregular boulders measures
5.20 m. in length by 2.00 m. in height. Its width is concealed by the terrace. These
1 Cf. Dr. Waldstein's Introduction, p. 2.
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Fig. 49. — Argivk Heraeum : View looking north upon the Cyclopean wall and Northeast
Stoa (III).
Stoa VI and the old wall), and as burial within the temenus was doubtless prohibited,
the evidence is strengthened that this old wall is a portion of that which originally
inclosed the sanctuary.
Further remains of very old walls are shown on Plate IV. lying just south of the
Cyclopean wall; these may be the ruins of dwelling-houses for the priestesses or attend-
ants. Other vestiffes of old stone work are distinguishable in the interior of the Second
Temple (V), indicating, at this most important point of the old temenus, the possible
position of the ancient altar, Avhich probably stood on or near this site long before the
construction of this temple.
These walls consisting of unworked small-sized stones, laid up as rough irregular rub-
ble without mortar, indicate a very primitive state of architectural art, similar to the
walls found in the lowest layers of Hissarlik, and, like these, they may have had super-
structures of sun-dried bricks.
CYCLOPEAN WALLS.
Next in chronological sequence are the massive Cyclopean walls which supported the
Upper Terrace (I) ; these are shown on Plate IV., and in the plan on Plate VIII., and
in elevation on Plate IX. (cf. Plate III. and Fig. 49). The walls resemble and are
doubtless coeval with the earliest walls of Tiryns, which Dr. Waldstein supposes to have
been built by Proetus about 1900 b. o.1 One of these huge, irregular boulders measures
5.20 m. in length by 2.00 m. in height. Its width is concealed by the terrace. These
1 Cf. Dr. Waldstein's Introduction, p. 2.