. Excavations at Phylakopi in Melos,. isted of a large room (18, 24) with asmaller one (28) opening out of it. The Avails are 60 metre thick, andremain standing to an average height of ISO metre. The larger room wasentered from the street by a doorway in the middle of its east side. Thisdoorway has freestone jambs, carefully worked but not rebated, and a thres-hold of the same material. At a later time a wall (c) was built across thenorth end of the larger room cutting off about two metres from its length. THE ARCHITECTURE. 00 Tliis space (18) was found to be filled with hard material and the
. Excavations at Phylakopi in Melos,. isted of a large room (18, 24) with asmaller one (28) opening out of it. The Avails are 60 metre thick, andremain standing to an average height of ISO metre. The larger room wasentered from the street by a doorway in the middle of its east side. Thisdoorway has freestone jambs, carefully worked but not rebated, and a thres-hold of the same material. At a later time a wall (c) was built across thenorth end of the larger room cutting off about two metres from its length. THE ARCHITECTURE. 00 Tliis space (18) was found to be filled with hard material and the back ofthe new wall c had been left rough ; it is therefore probable that it wasintended at the time the alteration was made, tliat the part cut off should beso filled in. The object of the change is not very clear. When the space 18was excavated, there appeared to be the remains of a drain (&) running partlythrough the room and partly under its north wall. This drain would be acontinuation of that running down street 11 in J Fic. 48.—Plax of Dktachkd Hoise of Pkkiud III. The Palace.—The last building which re(|uires special notice is thePalace (H 1 : o ; J 2 : 1, 3, kc. Figs. 49, 5(1). This building is situated, not inthe centre of the town, but considerably nearer to the eastern boundarythan to the western. Neither is it on the highest land, being about half-Avay down the slope. It stands on the north side of an open space about 1-imetres square, its entrance facing due south. It consists of a Megaron or Hall 56 T. D. ATKINSON HI J 1
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