. The story of architecture: an outline of the styles in all countries. easure over nine feet inlength and the ramparts in certain places exceedforty feet in thickness. Homer and Pausanias bothrefer in complimentary terms to Tiryns the ancientheritage of Hercules, the Lydian writer enthusias-tically comparing it with the Pyramids of the modern archaeologist finds the walls ofMycenae the more interesting and comprehensive,since they contain examples of all three eras. In Mycenae also may be seen the triangular open-ings mentioned above, whose shape being obviouslyawkward for the fitti
. The story of architecture: an outline of the styles in all countries. easure over nine feet inlength and the ramparts in certain places exceedforty feet in thickness. Homer and Pausanias bothrefer in complimentary terms to Tiryns the ancientheritage of Hercules, the Lydian writer enthusias-tically comparing it with the Pyramids of the modern archaeologist finds the walls ofMycenae the more interesting and comprehensive,since they contain examples of all three eras. In Mycenae also may be seen the triangular open-ings mentioned above, whose shape being obviouslyawkward for the fitting of doors eventually broughtabout the insertion of a lintel and a straightening ofthe door jambs, while the open space thus left abovefilled with sculpture, as in the citadel entrance GATE OF LIONS AT MYCENAE. HS called the Gate of Lions (Fig. 45). In this gate-way the lintel is a single stone, over fourteen feetin length, above which, framed in the masonry, is agreat triangle of basalt, having two lions (the royalinsignia of the Pelopidae) sculptured thereon, each. Fig. 45.—Gate of Lions at Mycenae. facing the other, their forefeet resting on an altar. Between them stands a colonnettc, the symbol of Apollo11 146 GREECE. Agvieus, guardian deity of streets, a favourite fea-ture of later Greek porticoes. Another more primitive gate, without sculpture,opens into a subterranean gallery leading to the so-called Treasury of Atreus, a building of beehive shape,corbel-vaulted, and underground (Figs. 46 and 47.) Brazen plates apparently adorned and lined theinside surface of the walls. For each stone is perfo-rated with two small holes in which bronze nails wereinserted and (in certain cases) still remain, while
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