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 440 Primitive Greece: Mvceman Art. to one another; but M. Fabricius, eight years later, had no difficulty in identifying them as parts of a unique building or block of buildings. The edifice is apparently rectangular, more than fifty-five metres long and forty-three metres broad. One of the small sides faces north. Two pieces of the massive wall enclosing it have been laid bare ; the one at the north-east corner, and the other on the western face. It rested on a well- jointed plinth of tufa, above which the wall was continued with rubble laid in mud ; the stone core, however, was cased in large slabs of limestone, averaging one metre in height and Fig. 170. — Cnosus. Plan of part of building. two metres in length. Towards the north-east corner stood a gate, recessed two metres eighty centimetres ; the difference was made good by a well-rounded tower or wall which covered the right side. The opening is one metre thirty centimetres wide (Fig. 170). As far as can be made out, the inner details of the construction are the following : the area within the enclosure was intersected by partitions also made of rubble and mud ; the corners alone being constructed with huge blocks of limestone, which played the part of anta^ (Fig. 170, a). Traces of the stuccoed decoration which covered the inner walls have been found on the floor of