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 50 Primitive Greece: Mycenian Art. left of PI. IV. Bronze clamps were dovetailed at both ex- tremities ; one end was driven into the stone, and the other into the bronze sheets (Fig. 258). Each hole shows a narrow rectangular cavity below, purposely made to facilitate the in- sertion of the dovetail. How the facing was applied to the wall, how the single units were joined together and fixed, is it COUPE PLAN 1. 258. — Tomb I. A sealing-hole. not all shown in Fig. 259? The letters seen in it coincide with those which serve as reference in elevation and section, PI. IV. The three courses above the lintel, as well as that resting on the relieving space, stand out beyond the plain wall. The bed, with the fourth row of clamps, projects seventeen centimetres from the one over it. The arrangement enables us to gain a notion of the receding field and the thickness of the facing