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 TiRYNS. 26; The excavations of 1885 have led to different conclusions. No circular path ever existed on the south face. The so-called sally- ports were doorways opening into five separate chambers, and six similar apartments were uncovered on the western side. The hollow of these chambers was filled by the gradual con- verging of the stones of the side-walls until they met at the top. The height of the wall above these chambers must have been the same as that which we find in the plan of the passage. The coping of the internal face of the rampart filled, in its fall, the hollow space around the casemates, and led to the false 1 II Ih cither dcslt ^m Exhtiiig ■wails. E23. Kuin iiiiJ ifil. Fig. 73.— Section of wall as at first conjectured by Dorpfeld. assumption just referred to ; this, with praiseworthy promptitude, was publicly acknowledged by Dorpfeld.' By the light of recent discoveries, the following conclusion has been reached. In front of the palace is a great courtyard (f), and traces of a porch appear on the south side (e), at any rate a double flight of steps had there its rise (d) ; they bisected each other at right angles, and led to a narrow passage {c) contrived in the body of the wall (Fig. 74). The mean breadth of this gallery is one metre fifty-five centimetres, and its height about five metres. ' Tiryns.