. Excavations at Phylakopi in Melos,. .1 3 10 12 3 MKTKKS I II. I i I I 0 5 10 FEET i I I I I t I I I I I Fici. 23.—HorsE of Period I. greater part of which is hidden by work of a later period, or perhaps we aredealing with foundations only. (See Fig. 59, Section WX, 19, and SectionYZ, 19). It was interesting to investigate the remains in J 2 : 11, 12, and thetemptation to reconstruct the missing portion is irresistible (Fig. 24, andSection WX). The west wall shows a toothing, «, indicating the existenceof a wall c. The two rooms communicated by a door h, which appears to havebeen blocked at a
. Excavations at Phylakopi in Melos,. .1 3 10 12 3 MKTKKS I II. I i I I 0 5 10 FEET i I I I I t I I I I I Fici. 23.—HorsE of Period I. greater part of which is hidden by work of a later period, or perhaps we aredealing with foundations only. (See Fig. 59, Section WX, 19, and SectionYZ, 19). It was interesting to investigate the remains in J 2 : 11, 12, and thetemptation to reconstruct the missing portion is irresistible (Fig. 24, andSection WX). The west wall shows a toothing, «, indicating the existenceof a wall c. The two rooms communicated by a door h, which appears to havebeen blocked at a subsequent period. Room 11 contains what appears to bea channel formed with masonrv running alongside the wall. 38 T. D. ATKINSON Methods of Construction.—All the walls of this period stand upon therock except in one or two doubtful cases. They are built chiefly of small J 2. 1 0 1 2 3 4 5 1 . 1 1 1 1 1 1 F SCALi: OF MKTIIES 10 5 0 10 \—l 1 .1. J. ? ? I • 1 I 1 SCALE OF ZTEET Fk;. -24. —HursK of Period I. The broken lines show conjectiued position of walls destroyed or hidden by later walls ; theshaded part b shows the later filling in of the doorway. stones and are covered with a sort of earthy plaster. Probably no lime wasused in building the walls, but some sort of clay was used instead ofmortar. § 6.—The Second Period. General Plan of the Town.—The remains of the Early Mycenaean periodare in some respects more complete than those of the later Mycenaean THE ARCHITECTURE. 39 town. We can lay down, probably with an approach to correctness, theposition of several streets (Fig. 25), we have some ten complete plans ofhouses, and the walls are left standing to a much greater height than thoseof the later age (compare the sections, Fig. 59). The streets were perhaps on an average one and a half metres wide, andran almost due north to south, an
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