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 a description is impossible, for it was built on a level; but in the sixth city the middle and northern part lay higher than the rest.

2. The buildings of Tiryns are erected partly in Cyclopean manner with great or small unhewn stones, and partly with clay bricks. According to Homer's words, we have to suppose most of the buildings in the Trojan citadel built in a different manner—i. e., of smooth, hewn stones. So the dwellings of the sons and sons-in-law of Priam were (, 244). While this description could not fit Tiryns, it exactly suits the dwellings found on our citadel. This is worthy of note, as it was thought impossible that walls and towers at that time could be built of hewn stone.

3. In the Pergamos of Troy, Homer knows a number of separate buildings, dwellings, and temples, which, though separated, yet lie near together. In the citadel of Tiryns such separate dwellings are not found. At most, one can see a second separate dwelling in what is generally regarded as the women's apartment. It is otherwise in our citadel. All the buildings thus far found are separate structures at a little distance from each other.

4. The house of Alexandros, according to Homer (, 316), consisted of three parts: the thalamos, the doma, and the aule. By thalamos we can understand a closed chamber, which formed the interior of the dwelling and was used as a sleeping apartment. The doma is a reception-room in front of the thalamos, thus being the anteroom of the house. The aule is the open court before the dwelling. A like threefold division is seen, though not so clearly, in