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 194 Primitive Greece : Mycenian Art. partially explored, its surface cannot be measured. Though smaller than that of the circuit-wall, this propylzeum consists of a gallery seven metres eighty centimetres by three metres ten centimetres wide, and of side-walls one metre thick (PI. I. c, and Fig. 47). It was divided into two unequal sections by the door strictly so called, whose site is marked by an enormous block of limestone, forming its ground-sill. Smoothed slabs were placed in front of the heads of the walls of the two vestibules, set back <-97 -*— —3.10- — *-97-V Fir.. 47.— Plan of propylieum. to back ; they still show the indentations in which rested four wooden uprights, making up as quaint a pair of antae as may be imagined. The floor of the passage, the apparent parts of the threshold and anta;, whatever in fact was not hidden beneath structures or timber plating, was covered with concrete. Con- nected with the body of the building, right and left of it, are walls of different epochs {h a, hb); here later rehandlings allow us only to descry, somewhat confusedly, an inner court, in length cir. twenty-seven metres by ten metres at its narrowest point. On the face turned towards the citadel these walls have resaults