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The House and the Palace. 133 the lower portion of the pillars being alone covered against wear and tear by bronze sheets. This bronze zone is succeeded by flutes like those of Tomb II. {Fig. 198), whilst the head of the shaft is the well-known capital of every Mycenian column. The middle division of the anta is composed of round timbers which serve the twofold purpose of breaking uniformity of aspect and of concealing the joints ; these in time would have been sure to widen and gape, had the contiguous surfaces been flat. Why KlO. 300. — Myteiiiaii palace, t'irsl epoch. Arrangement of wuoduork. should the employment of discs have been confined to a hori- zontal position ? Our entrances have the usual inward slope which characterizes all the stone doors of this architecture.^ The cases are made of thin planks set back the one from the other. an arrangement which we have met before in Lycia, as well as in the fa9ades of the domed-tombs at Mycena; (Pis. IV. — VI. and Fig. 198). Over these doors we have put trellised windows, without which the inner vestibule {prodomos) would have been left in utter darkness, whenever the door was shut. With respect ^ See ante, Vol. I. ch. iv. g 3, a.