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Primitive Greece : Mycenian Art. 4S8 which can be seen in the ground-plan. At the side of these slones, facing the doorway, are two grooves of some fifteen to sixteen centimetres broad, and three to four centimetres deep, which form a rebate of eight centimetres from the outer edge. Collectively, then, the arrangement in question supplies us with the needful elements for reconstructing the elevation of the door. The pilasters or uprights rested on the irregular blocks adjoining the sandstone piers, and on the sunk edge of the enormous threshold. That the jambs were timber is proved by the traces of fire left on the piers and on the wall of sun-dried brick and rubble near the doorways, as also by the remains of charcoal, and the total absence of any stone upright about these entrances. Accordingly, there were here mighty beams joined to the lintel above, and the sandstone blocks at the sides, by means of tenons and mortises. The sandstone blocks stand out, anta;- Vm. 195. — PUn ufamall dour. wise, four centimetres from the wall ; they constituted firmer points of attachment for the door-posts than these would have found in the irregular rubble masonry of the wall. The stone masses were really pilasters, which, like the two semi-columns at the Treasury of Atreus, enclosed the door on both sides. Similar antae or parastades occur nowhere at Tiryns, except in the great entrance to the men's hall, and probably also in the propylaeum leading to the court ; all the other doors were simpler, and had only a wooden framing. Such would be Fig. 195, which is one of the lateral doors opening on the vestibule of the women's hall. Here were no additional parastades, the wood posts being in direct contact with the wall of quarry-stones and clay brick ; yet neither in this nor in the doorway described above are there traces of mortises at the sides of the sill or on the adjacent blocks, into which the posts could have been sunk. The massive uprights were kept in position by their own weight and the