. Excavations at Phylakopi in Melos,. s, and about ten metresfurther on is stopped abruptly by the clifif which overhangs the sea. Itseems clear that this turn in the great wall indicates one of the augles ofthe city. No part of the wall has been assigned to the period to w4iich the earliesthouses belong; in one place it is built over a thin house-wall of that period(Plate I, B 5), but it is very doubtful whether the overlying wall is of thesecond or of the third period. Speaking generally, it is supposed that the THE ARCHTTECTURE 31 wall was orioinallv built in the Secoiul Period, and that it
. Excavations at Phylakopi in Melos,. s, and about ten metresfurther on is stopped abruptly by the clifif which overhangs the sea. Itseems clear that this turn in the great wall indicates one of the augles ofthe city. No part of the wall has been assigned to the period to w4iich the earliesthouses belong; in one place it is built over a thin house-wall of that period(Plate I, B 5), but it is very doubtful whether the overlying wall is of thesecond or of the third period. Speaking generally, it is supposed that the THE ARCHTTECTURE 31 wall was orioinallv built in the Secoiul Period, and that it was strengthenedand repaired in the third or Mycenaean Period. In construction the fortification corisists of two parallel walls each about2 ni. thick and H m. apart. These are connected by cross walls of veryvarious thickness and height, dividing the space between the two main wallsinto a number of cells or chambers. Most of these chambers appear to havebeen from the first filled with loose stones, for in many places the main walls. ;,:.T I 4—i:_r ? 1 i-^-4-y 51 .AUi Ol- MEXKtS 5c Alt; OK Kt: F. r Fii;. If).—Plan ok iakt ok thk Jown Wall and Plan s;; >Staircase, kit. iiad outward faces only and were left rough towards the chamber. Thus asingle wall with a total thickness of G m. was formed (PI. II., A 5 : 5 ;B 5 ; 23, 24). Other spaces were undoubtedly built as rooms in the thicknessof the wall (PI. II., C 5 : 12, 13, 14).^ The drain of which the outfall isshown in PI. II. Co: c doubtless led from the chamber 12. 1 All the cluiinbers l>et\veen tlie two walls were fouii I rillcil witli nil)l>isli wlieii tlieexcavation began, and all of them were du out. 32 T. D. ATKINSON
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