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Mycen/i;. structure built of great blocks, and in this wise they are indicated in StefFen's map. It soon became apparent, however, that the walls which had been cleared belonged to a Doric temple with general direction from north to south (Fig. ii6), enclosing a rectangular area forty-three metres long by twenty metres. A stone of the cornice and two fragments of the metope — the I HttlenisHc jeaiulationt. 8 Huge blocks of amygdaloid pCTphyry. Fic. 116. — The Mjfcenian pali Walls of the Afymiian tpoch. Great sandstone blocks. latter bearing upon them evanescent figures — permit us to fix the date of the temple between the sixth and seventh century b.c. ; that is to say, many hundred years after the building of the graves and other prehistoric and quasi-legendary monuments brought to the notice of the world by Schliemann in their brave war-like attitude and wealth acquired by conquest. As at Tiryns,