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i6o Primitive Greece: Mycenian Art. appear above the frieze in the semblance of another ornamental form, the " mutules," which until lately had seemed every whit as strange and problematical as the gutt£e. The stone table N, in the lower surface of which guttse are carved, is no other than our old wood-plate, which in the Mycenian carpentry work exhibits these Fiii. 312. — Enlablalure of C. Selinous temple. Peisiiective view. same saliences or pegs, and served to fix the lining of the joists below. If the Selinous mutules are sloped, it is because they are associated with a ridged roof ; but as a flat covering has been assumed for Mycenx, it involved — without prejudice to the system — a horizontal position for the mutules. As regards the frieze, both here and in every Doric Tjuilding, it invariably