Primitive Greece : Mycenian Art. In the ruins of a later building erected on part of the site of the m^aron, foundations have been traced stretching from one of the columns of the men's apartment to its east wall in one direction, and in the other to the entrance of the vestibule. This carries us back to a time when the palace was a mere heap of ruins. According to Dcirpfeld, the foundations under notice are those of the Doric temple already referred to, of which archi- tectural fragments, a capital and antefix, for example, have been 1:100. t 2 Fig. 86.— Plan and transverse u recovered. The character of these pieces is of such a nature that no historian of Greek architecture can afford in the future to neglect them. If they do not supply him with the means of restoring the entire order, they permit him to guess a Doric style older than any hitherto known, whether in Italy, Sicily, or even that of the temple of Hera lately discovered at Olympia.' Setting aside these ancient ruins as foreign to our present subject, ' Thas, in the temple of Hera the relation between the abacus and the shaft of the column is as o( : i, whilst in the Doric temple this relation is as of aj : i.
