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Primitive Greece : Mycenian Art. Mdme. Schliemann's Tomb {II.). As it stands, the difference between the point near the base and its broken top is five centimetres (Fig. 198). The traces which the semi-column at the Treasury of Atreus have left on the wall plainly show its downward tapering (PI. IV.);* it is no less well marked in a mutilated ivory column which was picked up at Spata, and doubtless is the broken limb of some funereal piece of furniture ' Tiryns, Adler's Preface. See ante, |>. 259 n.
