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 500 Primitive Greece : Mvcenian Art. That the employment of 6utes should have been general in the Mycenian column is but natural. There is little doubt that they first made their appearance in wood, whence they passed to the stone column, which so thoroughly adopted them as to Fic. 103.— Fragment of shaft of Tomb I. Heighi.^o m., 12 ; width, o m., 17. Green breccia- seem unable to exist without them. The bite of the gouge produces at one stroke those stride whose depths, as they fill with lighter or deeper shadow, bring out the roundness and delineate the contour with firmer accents. Instead of flutes, however, there appears on the column of the Treasury of