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268 Primitive Greece : Mycenian Art. A plain solid mass, in length eleven metres, and seven metres fifty centimetres thick, separates it from the courtyard. Four metres from the ground, the stones of the side-walls begin to approach each other, and their corbel forms a pointed arch. The western end of this passage is closed ; but its eastern end 'Suited chamber ; is lighted by a window which, starting with the same breadth as the corridor, contracts towards the outside down to ten cenii- • In all these figures the existing portions of the wall are indicated with a darl; tint, and the restored ones by a lighter shade.
