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 the palaces of Tiryns and Mycenae. The court is a double one. The doma consists of a hall, antechamber, and vestibule; and, instead of a single thalamos, we have there a special women's apartment, with a number of rooms beside it. In our citadel several of the buildings discovered consist of such an arrangement. Before each structure we must suppose an open court. The great closed apartment is the thalamos, and the half-open antechamber is the doma.

Dörpfeld described the nine strata of settlements on Hissarlik as follows:

I. Lowest primeval settlement; walls of small rubble stones and clay; primitive finds; date (only conjectured), 3000 to 2500 B.C.

II. Prehistoric citadel, with strong walls of defense and large dwellings of brick; three times destroyed and rebuilt; monochrome pottery; many objects of bronze, silver, and gold; date (conjectured), 2500 to 2000 B.C.

III., IV., V. Three prehistoric villages above the ruins of the second burned city; dwellings of small stones and brick; similar old Trojan pottery; date, about 2000 to 1500 B.C.

VI. Troy; citadel of the Mycenaean age; massive wall, with a great tower and respectable houses of well-wrought stone; the Pergamos of which Homer sang; developed monochrome Trojan pottery; imported Mycenaean vases; about 1500 to 1000 B.C.