distance of 0.83 m., the other to a distance of 0.92 m.; both are 1.08 m. high, and 1.25 m. thick. The pillars which rested on these foundations, like the lateral walls from which they projected, consisted of bricks, and served with them no doubt to support the roof, which seems to have been crowned with an upper building of brick.
Just in front of this ancient gateway, and separated from it by an open space, perhaps a street, about 6 m. wide, there stood in the interior of the Acropolis a large edifice, which was demolished by the second settlers when they added to this gate a second portal (marked F M on No. 17, and with red colouring on Plan VII.) with far-extending lateral walls (d z on Plan VII. and on No. 17), whose end-faces (p s, p s on Plan VII. and No. 17) were strengthened with wooden parastades; the well-wrought base-stones of
