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 154 Primitive Greece: Mycenian Art. overlapping timber f in the act of being put on frieze D E, as well as its points of junction with the architrave a, beam c, and tablet 11. The several pieces are seen jointed together in Fig. 306. The lower portion of the entablature, close to the point where it tails into the massive wall bounding the vestibule of the megaron at either side, appears suspended in empty space. The beams r s served to line and strengthen the head of the wall. One of the longitudinal joists, which serve as ties between the columns and the entablature of the end wall, and make up the FlC. 306.— Myceni.-in ]ralace. ceiling of the vestibule, is seen at h. The raised plate or inter-tie G, though figuring in the sketch (Fig. 306), does not belong to, and is quite separate from the entablature, for by themselves the architrave and frieze could not constitute the whole entablature, and were inadequate supports. A stout resisting floor was re- quisite to bear the heavy clay covering, and the beams which kept it aloft jutted far out beyond the wall to protect its loose masonry of quarry stone, brick, and wood against the rain. The projecting joists in question are well seen in the perspective view of the palace wall of Mycenae (Fig. 307), of which an elevation was given in Fig. 175. The Ionic entablature exhibits,