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 56 pRiMiTivii GuiiLci: : Myckxian Art. we shall find that the holes of the third line fall vertically over those of the first, whilst in the intervening second line the holes are in the centre of the space formed by the other lines. In this way a continuous lozenge-like pattern is obtained. Some of the rings — the sixth, tenth, thirteenth, and fifteenth — bear no traces of nails. Seen from the vaulted chamber, the door reproduces the arrangement of the principal gate (Fig. 264). Above the stone beam, three metres twenty-five centimetres long by fifty centi- metres high, there is the discharging space. Small, serried holes, particularly visible right of the opening, indicate that a door- I'"jO. 164.— Tunib I. lJuur ur^)cl^: cliaLnU.r, case was fixed to the wall. The vault is approached by a corridor which traverses the whole block of the building ; and its sides, as it ran inward with the stony mass, were faced by ashlar stones. Before these had disappeared, the passage in length was four metres sixty centimetres, and the rectangular chamber seven metres fifty centimetres on one side, and six metres sixty centimetres on the other, and about five metres in height. It has lost its decoration, which formed its chief interest, and made it resemble the vault at Orchomenos (Fig. 254). In the middle of the chamber, where bats have left marks of their presence, Schliemann found an almost circular depression, fifty-