3^6 Primitive Grefxe : Mvcenian Art. must have been a courtyard. Above the letter a (see plan) appears' an excavation hewn in a brace of huge tufa boulders, at the bottom of which is an opening sixteen centimetres broad. At first sight the cutting might be taken for a sink, but as it was filled with charcoal, ashes, and bones, the idea, if it ever crossed £ti- EH /Cn//j of the Alymiiaii /f- E3 iValh of a latir r/,v*. KiG. 1 14.— Plan of Mrucliirc o|)posile I0 the ; the mind of the explorer, was dismissed in favour of a "pit- offering " analogous to the Tirynthian and Mycenian specimens (Figs. 81, 82, 103). The base close by must have supported a wooden pillar (a), one perhaps from a portico extending between the court {b) and the fore-chamber or covered vestibule. This opened into the megaron, or men's apartment, with central square
