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Primitive Greece : Mvcenian Art. the vestibule and established a second entrance, with threshold and folding-doors (w, «), midway up the passage {Im) which they opened inside the enclosure. Posts, playing the part of antx, were set up at either end of the wall facing the esplanade [sp, sp). Very similar posts probably leant against the outward wall ; but there they have left no trace behind, whilst here they can be plainly seen on the ground ; the carefully-made sockets in which rested these wooden pieces being still in place. The presence of this species of ants suggests the notion that, like Fin. 44, — Plan of soulh-west gale, P m the earlier gates, this one also formed a covered passage. That this work of defence ought to be attributed to the third period, is made clear by the side-walls of the passage passing over the remains of an older building, which they cross slantwise ; for the latter had to come away when the body of the gateway was enlarged. As might have been expected, this gate, situate on one of the small sides of the mound, was not the only one the citadel had : a second portal opened in the middle of the south face, and, being close to the plain, was the most strongly fortified. The gate fo, uncovered on this same front