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 TiiK House and the Palace. 137 by giving greater depth to his coverings, and that, as we gather from the ruins of the Tirynthian palace, he has endowed his decoration with richer effects. The loft is practically identical in both systems, except that in the second period the member which we call "frieze" has been added and inserted between the architrave and the cornice. This enables us to set up at that height a lower floor, composed of timbers of considerable size (Fig. 3or). The upper floor is constituted on precisely the same lines as that of the first palace. Above the capital appears a VlK,. J02.— Myceiiiaii palai;i:. Semiid tpucli. Ariani;t^iiii:iil uf ivouJnurk aliuve ihu capilaL complement which recalls the terminal form of the bas-relief over the Lions Gate {PI. XIV.). It also corresponds with the two- fold plat-band, surmounting the head of the semi-column in the fa9ade of the Tomb of Atreus (Pis. V., VI.). This double supplementary member is not put there for mere show ; from each column starts a course of beams extending across the porch to the end wall, whereon they repose. The downward pressure which they exercised on the pillars, whilst keeping these in position, had the twofold advantage of making them "sit up," and of adding to their height (Fig. 302). The shaft, like the