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 458 Primitive Greece : Mycenian Art. two centres, we have already spoken. It supplied the heads of the walls in either town," the wainscoting of passages leading to the citadel of Hissarlik.^ the facing of the sides of the main vestibule and bath-room at Tiryns," as well as doors and posts, lintels, ground-sills, the floors of upper chambers,* the columns supporting the ceilings of porticoes and public rooms,'^ including the roof framing, which bore aloft heavy terraces. Finally, one of the distinctive characteristics of the Mycenian style of con- struction is seen in the fixing of cross-timbers as ties to the stone and brick courses of the wall, to keep them in their place .^'X- C? -"3 Fin. 175.— No tl hem wall of megaron of the palncc. {see Fig. 175).' When we reflect how extensively timber entered into the construction of these buildings, we cease to wonder at their having all perished by fire. The heights that skirt the Scamander, the Idjean masses high and low, are finely timbered with oak and pine. But with regard to Greece one is somewhat puzzled as to the origin of the enormous quantity of wood seen in the structures, since it would be hard to find hills more naked and bare than the ' History of Art. - Ihid. ^ Ibid. '■• Sfivivoc, /itXicw oiifof, Odyssey : Schi.ilmann, Tiryns. " History of Art.
 * SCHLIEMANN, Tiryfis.