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 that the Romans cut away old buildings to obtain a level foundation for the new city.

Dörpfeld continued the work after Schliemann's death. Fortification walls, dwellings, gates, towers were laid bare. Some of the streets were paved with gypsum. The citadel was terrace-formed. Several of the houses consist of a large apartment and antechamber, resembling in this respect the megaron of the palace discovered at Gha, the private house unearthed close to the south wall of the citadel of Mycenae, and the women's hall at Tiryns. Although the large megara at Mycenae and Tiryns are distinguished by antechamber and vestibule, the Homeric description fits the simpler arrangement of a single anteroom designated by both names. The columns of the Trojan megaron are absent, with one exception. This may show that the design was taken from the buildings of the prehistoric settlements, especially the palace of the second stratum. The wall of the city, built out of blocks of limestone, is seen on the south, west, east. The foundation wall, sixteen feet thick and fifteen to twenty feet high, is scalable on the east side. Upon this is built a perpendicular upper wall, six feet thick. There are three gates—one on the south, another on the southwest, another on the east. A tower stands by the south gate, another juts out farther toward the east wall, while at the northeast corner rises a mighty tower which guards the water supply.

Vases of Mycenaean pattern were unearthed,