^{page 147 note 1} Karten von Mykenai, Pl. II.

^{page 147 note 2} Πρακτικά, 1886, pp. 59 ffGoogle Scholar.

^{page 147 note 3} Ibid., 1888, p. 29.

^{page 147 note 4} Jahrbuch, 1919, pp. 87 ffGoogle Scholar.

^{page 147 note 5} Der Fries des Megarons von Mykenai.

^{page 148 note 1} The account of the architectural remains and the pottery is the work of Mr. Wace, who was assisted throughout in his observations by Dr. Holland and Dr. Blegen. The frescoes are described by Miss Lamb, who was in principal charge of the operations in the Palace in 1921, but she has assisted in many other ways as well. Dr. Boethius too took an active part in the examination of the Pithos Area, Pillar Basement, and North-Western Propylon. Other members of the School, notably Mr. A. W. Gomme, have helped in the work on which this report is based.

^{page 148 note 2} See pp. 67 ff., above.

^{page 148 note 3} Πρακτικά, 1895, p. 24Google Scholar; 1896, p. 29.

^{page 148 note 4} The figures in heavy type refer to the Plan, Pl. II.

^{page 149 note 1} For the difference between ‘limestone’ and ‘poros’ see A.J.A., 1923, p. 445Google Scholar.

^{page 151 note 1} B.S.A. xxiv. p. 208Google Scholar.

^{page 151 note 2} Blegen, Korakou, Fig. 81.

^{page 151 note 3} Evans, , Palace of Minos, I. p. 570, Fig. 415A, p. 588 ffGoogle Scholar.

^{page 151 note 4} Cf. B.S.A. vii. p. 75Google Scholar; x. p. 8.

^{page 151 note 5} See pp. 20 ff. above. One was found in Tomb 521, which is early L.H. III.

^{page 152 note 1} See below, p. 154.

^{page 152 note 2} Evans, , Palace of Minos, i. pp. 325 ffGoogle Scholar., Figs. 237–247.

^{page 154 note 1} Side (a) ·055 × ·018 m., orange stripe, probably originally red. Above, in black on white, traces of pattern similar to the fresco, B.S.A. xxiv. p. 199Google Scholar, I., and the vase, Evans, , Prehistoric Tombs, p. 157Google Scholar, Fig. 142b.

Side (b) ·06 × ·033 × ·023 m., crescents, black on white, cf. the M.M. II, b fresco fragment with crescents from Knossos, , Evans, , Palace of Minos, I. p. 251Google Scholar, Fig. 188b.

^{page 156 note 1} The first and second are ·42 m. apart in centres, the second and third ·97 m. apart.

^{page 156 note 2} Cf. the pottery, Zakro, J.H.S. 1903, pp. 251 ff.Google Scholar, and that from Palaikastro, , Bosanquet-Dawkins, , Unpublished Objects, pp. 24, 27Google Scholar.

^{page 157 note 1} Korakou, p. 44.

^{page 157 note 2} Cf. Blegen, op. cit., p. 18.

^{page 157 note 3} Cf. the similar vase from the Sixth Shaft Grave, Furtwängler-Loeschcke, , Myk. Tongefässe, Pl. X. 49Google Scholar.

^{page 158 note 1} Gillièron, Nachbildungen Mykenischer und Kretischer Altertümer, Pl. XXIII, No. 122.

^{page 158 note 2} Furtwängler-Loeschcke, , Myk. Tongefässe, Pl. III. 10, 11Google Scholar.

^{page 159 note 1} Blegen, op. cit., Fig. 49, 3, 8, 9.

^{page 159 note 2} Below the wide step the treads are ·12 m. high and ·37–·40 m. wide; above the wide step they measure ·15–·16 m. × ·44–·45 m.

^{page 160 note 1} See p. 148, above.

^{page 161 note 1} Πρακτικὰ, 1886, p. 73Google Scholar.

^{page 163 note 1} Evans, , Palace of Minos, i. p. 537, Fig. 390Google Scholar.

^{page 163 note 2} The number is uncertain, as some of the fragments show merely blue on white, and may therefore belong to another fresco; see below, p. 171, No. 14 (v).

^{page 163 note 3} Inv. 2783. Rodenwaldt, , Der Fries des Megarons, p. 69Google Scholar, note 154, B. 3.

^{page 163 note 4} See p. 162.

^{page 163 note 5} For development of the rosette see Rodenwaldt, , Tiryns, ii. pp. 56–58Google Scholar.

^{page 163 note 6} Cf. Rodenwaldt, , Tiryns, ii. p. 28Google Scholar; Evans, , Palace of Minos, i. p. 356Google Scholar.

^{page 164 note 1} In list B. measurements are only given to assist indentification. They are omitted when the fragments are illustrated or have been previously published. The fragments are unburnt, unless it is otherwise stated.

^{page 165 note 1} Rodenwaldt, , Tiryns, ii. p. 98, Fig. 40Google Scholar; Pl. XI., 4; p. 110; Pl. XI., 11, p. 99. The strongest argument in favour of there being one horse is that there are black marks on the red.

^{page 165 note 2} Rodenwaldt, , Ath. Mitt. 1911, p. 245, n. 1Google Scholar. For chariots see E. v. Mercklin, Der Rennwagen in Griechenland.

^{page 166 note 1} On the analogy of the processions from Knossos, (B.S.A. vi. p. 12)Google Scholar and Thebes, (Ἐϕ. Ἀρχ. 1909, Pls. I. and II., p. 90)Google Scholar.

^{page 166 note 2} Cf. Evans, , Palace of Minos, i. p. 430Google Scholar.

^{page 166 note 3} Rodenwaldt, , Tiryns, ii. pp. 69 ffGoogle Scholar.

^{page 166 note 4} Ἐϕ. Ἀρχ. 1909, p. 90Google Scholar; ᾿Αρχ. Δελτίν, iii., p. 339, Fig. 193Google Scholar.

^{page 167 note 1} For discussion of arrangement of hair, see Rodenwaldt, , Tiryns, ii. p. 83 ffGoogle Scholar.

^{page 167 note 2} Evans, , Palace of Minos, i., Figs. 67, 69, pp. 96, 98Google Scholar.

^{page 167 note 3} For carnelian, see Tombs 518, 526, 529 in the Kalkani Cemetery. For lapis, cf. Ath. Mitt. 1909, p. 295, Fig. 12, 1Google Scholar. For gold, cf. Maraghiannis, , Ant. Crétoises I.Google Scholar, Pl. XVIII.

^{page 167 note 4} Rodenwaldt, , Tiryns, ii. p. 89Google Scholar, discussing similar beads on bracelets, explains them as amber.

^{page 168 note 1} ᾿Αρχ. Δελτίον, iii., p. 339, Fig. 193Google Scholar.

^{page 168 note 2} Incorporated in reconstruction, ᾿Αρχ. Λελτίον, loc. cit.

^{page 168 note 3} The patterns for this upper part of the skirt vary considerably: in Tiryns we have scales and small black arcs, and the latter occurs at Thebes; cf. Tiryns, ii. p. 95Google Scholar. For discussion of skirt cf. Tiryns, ii. pp. 76–9Google Scholar.

^{page 169 note 1} See Rodenwaldt, , Tiryns, ii. p. 49, n. 1Google Scholar.

^{page 169 note 2} Rodenwaldt, op. cit. p. 29.

^{page 169 note 3} Schliemann, Tiryns, Pl. V.; Rodenwaldt, op. cit. p. 49, n. 1.

^{page 169 note 4} Rodenwaldt, op. cit. p. 49, n. 1.

^{page 171 note 1} Rodenwaldt, , Tiryns, iiGoogle Scholar. Pl. IV.

^{page 171 note 2} One of these fragments probably accounts for the supposed animal's head on the upper left-hand corner of Ἐφ. ᾿Αρχ., 1887, Pl. XI.

^{page 171 note 3} As Rodenwaldt, , Tiryns, ii. pp. 62–3Google Scholar.

^{page 172 note 1} Προκτικά, 1886, p. 74Google Scholar.

^{page 173 note 1} Furtwängler-Loeschcke, Myk. Tongefässe, Pls. VIII., IX., X.; cf. Blegen, , Korakou, pp. 28 ffGoogle Scholar.

^{page 173 note 2} Furtwängler-Loeschcke, op. cit. Pl. IX.

^{page 174 note 1} Fimmen, , Kretisch-Mykenische Kultur, p. 88, Fig. 74Google Scholar.

^{page 176 note 1} The clay floor of this trench (corresponding to the upper floor of the trench described above, p. 173) is above this wall. To the north of the wall was found a floor corresponding to the lower floor, pp. 173, 174.

^{page 177 note 1} Similar to those from Tombs 515, 518 and 529.

^{page 179 note 1} See above, p. 160.

^{page 180 note 1} Cf. Dr. Holland's observations below, p. 275.

^{page 180 note 2} Προκτικά, 1886, pp. 63, 64Google Scholar.

^{page 180 note 3} Karten von Mykenai, Pl. II.

^{page 180 note 4} See further, below, p. 275.

^{page 181 note 1} See below, p. 202.

^{page 181 note 2} Owing to the insecure state of the upper part of the wall no accurate measurements were possible.

^{page 181 note 3} This consisted of: (i) coarse plaster, red; (ii) finer plaster, red, black and white, all burnt.

^{page 182 note 1} In early tombs (L.H. I.–II.) terracotta whorls are found, in late (L.H. III.) tombs steatite whorls; see below, p. 385.

^{page 183 note 1} The post-Mycenaean sherds clearly cannot be taken into account, as we should otherwise have to assume the filling in to have been done in Hellenistic times. The floor of the Anteroom is not intact, and so later pottery could penetrate into the gaps in the fill.

^{page 183 note 2} Cf. Pl. XXIV. and Fig. 38.

^{page 183 note 3} It must be confessed that in the final phase of the Palace when this space (61) served as Anteroom to the Room of the Throne, it would still have had a Curious shape.

^{page 185 note 1} Perhaps on its south side the Pillar Basement was an open portico supporting a terrace above; see below, p. 275. The door to which the red sandstone sill belonged, would have given access to this terrace from the Court.

^{page 185 note 2} Pp. 151 ff. above.

^{page 186 note 1} The western threshold has a pivot-hole for a door, but no certain pivot-hole can be seen in the eastern threshold.

^{page 187 note 1} Schliemann, , Tiryns, p. 234Google Scholar; cf. also Phylakopi, p. 61, Fig. 57.

^{page 187 note 2} Tsountas, , Προκτικά, 1886, p. 68Google Scholar.

^{page 187 note 3} Rodenwaldt, , Jahrb. 1919, p. 106Google Scholar, notes that there were black markings on the blue similar to those on the rosettes; cf. Tiryns, ii. Pl. VIII.

^{page 188 note 1} Described, Rodenwaldt, , Tiryns, ii. p. 223Google Scholar.

^{page 188 note 2} Tsountas considered it was a hearth, Προκτικά, 1886, p. 68Google Scholar.

^{page 188 note 3} Evans, , Antiquaries' Journal, ii. p. 323Google Scholar.

^{page 188 note 4} See p. 162, above; the fresco is B 12 (i).

^{page 188 note 5} See p. 180 above.

^{page 189 note 1} See below, pp. 232 ff.

^{page 190 note 1} As at Tiryns; Schliemann, , Tiryns, pp. 255 ffGoogle Scholar.

^{page 190 note 2} See further below; cf. Fig. 37 and Pl. XXXIV. c.

^{page 190 note 3} Roderrwaldt's, difficulties (Jahrbuch, 1919, pp. 93 ff.Google Scholar), owing to the apparent absence of ashlar facing to the east part of this north wall, need therefore no longer trouble us.

^{page 190 note 4} Evans, , Palace of Minos, i. p. 128, Fig. 95Google Scholar.

^{page 190 note 5} See above, p. 112.

^{page 190 note 6} Evans, , Palace of Minos, iGoogle Scholar. Figs. 239, 240.

^{page 192 note 1} Rodenwaldt, , Jahrbuch, 1919, p. 95Google Scholar, assumed that the whole Court was roofed over in the period contemporary with the decoration in question; this was before the removal of the walls of later date from the Court conclusively proved the absence of the supports necessary for a roof.

^{page 193 note 1} Probably the period of Geometric pottery; Tsountas, , Προκτικά, 1886, p. 62Google Scholar.

^{page 194 note 1} Rodenwaldt, , Tiryns, ii. p. 234, Fig. 83Google Scholar.

^{page 194 note 2} Rodenwaldt, op. cit., p. 23, Figs. 2, 3.

^{page 194 note 3} Jahrbuch, 1919, p. 102Google Scholar.

^{page 194 note 4} For detail of the various patterns see Jahrbuch, 1919, p. 97 ffGoogle Scholar.

^{page 194 note 5} See below, p. 238. The ground is mostly so burnt that the colour can only be distinguished in small patches.

^{page 194 note 6} Probably in all cases the lines were black, white and red, the red being most often preserved.

^{page 195 note 1} See p. 238.

^{page 195 note 2} This lies immediately to the north of the Megaron and its Vestibule (56, 57).

^{page 195 note 3} The rock has been cut away to make the present level of the Court, as also to support the staircase (34) from the Porch (55) (see below, p. 257, and the Section, Fig. 38).

^{page 200 note 1} Προκτικά, 1886, p. 65Google Scholar.

^{page 201 note 1} This was possibly walled up in the latest phase, see above, p. 180.

^{page 201 note 2} Cf. the gallery windows in the frescoes, Pls. XLII., XLIII., and Rodenwaldt, Fries des Megarons, Pl. 1.

^{page 201 note 3} Προκτικά, 1886, p. 60, Pl. 4Google Scholar.

^{page 204 note 1} Cf. Schliemann, , Tiryns, pp. 212, 234Google Scholar.

^{page 205 note 1} B.S.A., xxiv. pp. 203–4, Pl. XIII. 3, d, eGoogle Scholar.

^{page 206 note 1} Πρακτικά, 1886, p. 70Google Scholar.

^{page 206 note 2} It is 3·17 m. long, 1·10 m. wide and ·30 m. thick.

^{page 207 note 1} See p. 192, above.

^{page 207 note 2} The Antechamber (33) may have already been in existence and this reconstruction may simply have altered the means of approach to it.

^{page 208 note 1} Compare, however, Dr. Holland's opinion, p. 281, below.

^{page 208 note 2} See above, p. 161.

^{page 209 note 1} The lack of parallelism between the West Terrace Wall and the section of the Palace comprising the Western Portal and the Room of the Throne (and therefore the Court and Megaron) is noted below by Dr. Holland, pp. 273 ff.; but it does not necessarily follow that the Terrace Wall is later than this group of buildings, for the mere existence of the Western Portal and of the roadway leading up to it from the Propylon presupposes a terrace wall.

^{page 210 note 1} Journ. Int. Arch. Num., 1906, Pl. V.Google Scholar; Seltman, , Athens, its History and Coinage, pp. 4, 5, Figs. 3, 4Google Scholar.

^{page 210 note 2} Svoronos, op. cit., Pls. II. and III.; Seltman, op. cit., pp. 1 ff.

^{page 210 note 3} Svoronos, op. cit., pp. 173 ff.; Seltman, op. cit., p. 2, Fig. 1.

^{page 210 note 4} Seltman, op. cit., pp. 4 ff.; 112 ff.

^{page 210 note 5} So Prof. Tsountas kindly informs us. See pp. 164 ff., above, and Pls. XXVI. b, XXVII.

^{page 211 note 1} These are quite unlike those of the early high type at Knossos, which are ·58 m. in diameter and ·34 m. high; see Evans, , Palace of Minos, i. p. 212, Figs. 156, 157Google Scholar.

^{page 211 note 2} On the staircase at Knossos the column bases are ·47 m. in diameter, and the columns 2 m. high. In the Hall of Colonnades the column bases are ·60 m. in diameter, and the columns 3 m. high. In the Queen's Megaron the column bases are ·63 m. in diameter, and the columns about 3·07 m. high. In the Royal Villa the bases are ·47 m. in diameter, and the columns could not have been more than about 2·70 m. high.

^{page 211 note 3} The column bases of the Megaron and of its Porch rest on rectangular blocks of conglomerate.

^{page 212 note 1} Evans, , Palace of Minos, i. p. 214, Fig. 158Google Scholar.

^{page 212 note 2} Blegen, , Korakou, pp. 80 ffGoogle Scholar.

^{page 212 note 3} Blegen, op. cit., pp. 130 ff.

^{page 212 note 4} Among the cobbles some pieces of cement flooring were found, but there is nothing to shew where it originally lay.

^{page 213 note 1} See p. 216, below.

^{page 213 note 2} See p. 218, below.

^{page 214 note 1} Fyfe, , J.R.I.B.A., x. pp. 110 ff.Google Scholar; see also Rodenwaldt, , Tiryns, ii. p. 29, No. 41Google Scholar.

^{page 215 note 1} See p. 214, above.

^{page 216 note 1} We have not found, however, any sign of such an entrance, and it is perhaps more likely that the North Corridor was reached from the South Corridor by the passage to be described below, p. 221.

^{page 217 note 1} See above, p. 67.

^{page 219 note 1} To judge by the condition of the frescoes the western part of the Palace seems on the whole to have suffered less from fire than others; as for instance, the Megaron, the Room of the Throne and the Court.

^{page 220 note 1} Athens, Nat. Mus., 1000; Schliemann, , Mycenae, p. 164Google Scholar, Fig. 238.

^{page 221 note 1} See below, p. 233.

^{page 223 note 1} See p. 207, above.

^{page 223 note 2} The bricks are about ·085 m. high, ·575–·60 m. long and ·315 m. deep, as far as can be ascertained.

^{page 224 note 1} See below, p. 226, No. III.

^{page 225 note 1} B.S.A. viii. p. 96Google Scholar; Evans, , Palace of Minos, i. p. 437Google Scholar; ᾿Εφ. ᾿Αρχ 1922, pp. 15Google Scholar ff., Fig. 12; cf. Evans, , Prehist. Tombs, p. 37Google Scholar, Fig. 33; Antiquaries' Journal, ii. 327Google Scholar; ᾿Αρχ. Δελτίον, iv. p. 77Google Scholar; Rodenwaldt, , Tiryns, ii. p. 63Google Scholar.

^{page 225 note 2} Rodenwaldt, , Tiryns, ii. p. 63Google Scholar, Fig. 25.

^{page 225 note 3} ᾿Εφ. ᾿Αρχ.. 1889, Pl. X. No. 37.

^{page 225 note 4} Evans, , Tomb of the Double Axes, pp. 25, 27Google Scholar, Fig. 37, b.

^{page 226 note 1} The red line is so much rubbed away that it is impossible to tell for certain whether it is a tooth pattern or a wavy line, but the latter is more probable.

^{page 226 note 2} See also p. 170 for fragment of altar with spirals found by Tsountas.

^{page 228 note 1} B.S.A. viii, pp. 96Google Scholar ff.

^{page 230 note 1} Cf. Blegen, Korakou, Pl. I. (i), Figs. 4, 6, pp. 6, 7.

^{page 232 note 1} Cf. Schliemann, , Tiryns, p. 274Google Scholar.

^{page 232 note 2} Tsountas, Πρακτικά, 1886, pp. 65Google Scholar ff.; Tsountas-Manatt, , Mycenaean Age, pp. 56Google Scholar ft.; cf. Doerpfeld's account of the Tiryns Megaron in Schliemann's, Ṫiryns, pp. 208Google Scholar ff.

^{page 233 note 1} The door opening was nearly 2 m. wide.

^{page 233 note 2} Πρακτικά, 1886, p. 66Google Scholar.

^{page 233 note 3} See above, p. 211.

^{page 233 note 4} Hist, de l'Art, vi. p. 689Google Scholar, Fig. 302, Pl. XI.

^{page 235 note 1} B.S.A. xxiv. pp. 189Google Scholar ff.; Ath. Mitt. 1911, Pl. IX.

^{page 235 note 2} On the north wall the black is now a dull brown.

^{page 235 note 3} Rodenwaldt, , Tiryns, ii. p. 33Google Scholar; e.g. the rosettes, op. cit. Fig. 72.

^{page 235 note 4} The motive is generally agreed to be architectural both by those who regard it as a frieze and those who regard it as a dado; A.J.A. 1917, p. 127Google Scholar.

^{page 236 note 1} Schliemann, Mycenae, Fig. 151.

^{page 236 note 2} A.J.A. 1917, p. 126Google Scholar.

^{page 236 note 3} Ibid.

^{page 236 note 4} B.S.A. xxiv. Pl. VII. 2, p. 192Google Scholar.

^{page 237 note 1} See above, p. 210.

^{page 237 note 2} Rodenwaldt, , Tiryns, ii. Fig. 72, p. 167Google Scholar.

^{page 237 note 3} The opening is about 1–80 m. wide.

^{page 238 note 1} Πρακτικά, 1886, p. 66Google Scholar.

^{page 238 note 2}2 Jahrbuch, 1919, p. 90Google Scholar.

^{page 238 note 3} Cf. Schliemann, Tirvns, Pls. XIV, XV, XVII b.

^{page 240 note 1} See above, pp. 87 ff., Fig. 20.

^{page 240 note 2} Jahrbuch, 1919, p. 88Google Scholar.

^{page 240 note 3} Ibid., p. 89.

^{page 241 note 1} Above the floor of the Megaron we found two fragments of painted deep bowls of ordinary L.H. III. style. They prove nothing but that the Megaron was in use at that period.

^{page 241 note 2} Πρακτικά, 1886, p. 67Google Scholar.

^{page 241 note 3} Evans, , Palace o Minos, i. p. 551Google Scholar; see above, p. 225.

^{page 242 note 1} There are traces of an extra layer between 3 (C) and 4 (C) which cannot be accounted for.

^{page 242 note 2} Tsountas' illustration (Πρακτικά, 1886, Pl. 5) gives a yellow ground between the spirals; this may be error, or the yellow may have faded since the first discovery of the hearth.

^{page 242 note 3} A small fragment of a plaster hearth, with a rounded edge, was found in the neighbourhood of the hearth. See Pl. XXV. b, No. 8. The upper surface had a spiral pattern: white spirals, red centres, yellow filling. The side had scallops drawn in black and red on ochre. It is possible this fragment came from (C) and (D) of one of the innermost layers of the Megaron hearth.

^{page 244 note 1} See below, pp. 245 ff.

^{page 245 note 1} Karten von Mykenai, Pl. II.

^{page 246 note 1} This is not, in fact, quite conclusive, for there might have been a retaining wall here supporting an early Megaron, which could later have been incorporated in the acropolis wall in L.H. III. times. But in view of the other evidence connecting the Megaron with L.H. III.—and especially from its close association with the Court, Pillar Basement and Room of the Throne—it is extravagant to assume the existence of such a retaining wall, isolated as it would have been, built when there was no wall surrounding the citadel.

^{page 247 note 1} See p. 389. Sawn conglomerate and limestone are characteristic of the palace at Tiryns, which is L.H. III.; see Schliemann, , Tiryns, pp. 264Google Scholar ff.

^{page 247 note 2} B.S.A. xiv. pp. 386Google Scholar ff.; cf. Doerpfeld, , Ath. Mitt. 1907, pp. 576Google Scholar ff.; Noack, , Ovalhaus und Palast, pp. 34Google Scholar ff.

^{page 248 note 1} Times Lit. Supp., July 15, 1920.

^{page 249 note 1} Πρακτικά, 1886, p. 73Google Scholar; ᾿Εφ. ᾿Αρχ., 1887, Pl. II.

^{page 249 note 2} Fries d. Megarons v. Mykenai, pp. 23 ff.

^{page 249 note 3} I.e. close to where Rodenwaldt found his new pieces of fresco. Fries d. Megarons v. Mykenai, p. 23.

^{page 250 note 1} J.H.S., xxii. Pl. X. No. 130.

^{page 250 note 2} Evans, , Palace of Minos, i. pp. 445–6Google Scholar, Figs. 319, 321. Rodenwaldt also very aptly compares the fresco fragment from Orchomenos (Bulle, , Orchomenos, i. Pl. XXVIIIGoogle Scholar), op. cit., p. 33.

^{page 250 note 3} Rodenwaldt, , Tiryns, pp. 26–27Google Scholar.

^{page 250 note 4} Stais, , Ath. Mitt., 1915, pp. 45Google Scholar ff.

^{page 250 note 5} Rodenwaldt, , Fries d. Megarons, p. 54Google Scholar.

^{page 250 note 6} Fyfe, , J.R.I.B.A., x. 1903, p. 114Google Scholar; Bulle, , Orchomenos, i. p. 73Google Scholar. The black markings on our fresco are oblong and comparatively close together.

^{page 250 note 7} B.S.A., x. pp. 41–42Google Scholar.

^{page 250 note 8} Evans, , Palace of Minos, i. pp. 445–6Google Scholar, Fig. 321.

^{page 250 note 9} Bulle, , Orchomenos, iGoogle Scholar. Pl. XXVIII.

^{page 251 note 1} They may resemble the wooden construction on the upper part of a fragment from Knossos, J.H.S., 1901, p. 136Google Scholar, Fig. 18.

^{page 251 note 2} The motive of women looking from windows has an interesting history. It develops from illustrations like the Knossos miniature fresco of women seated in a loggia watching some function (J.H.S., 1901, Pl. V., J.R.I.B.A., xviii. p. 290Google Scholar, Fig. 1). In the next stage, that of the Mycenae miniature fresco found by Schliemann under the Ramp House (Ath. Mitt., 1911, Pl. IX; B.S.A., xxiv. pp. 189Google Scholar ff.), the windows reveal only the heads, arms and shoulders of the spectators. In the fragment of the Megaron fresco found by Rodenwaldt (Fries d. Megarons, p. 30, coloured plate) is a window framing the head alone. This bears a striking resemblance to a type in Phoenician art, of a woman's head in a window. Examples are given by Poulsen (Orient u. d. frühgriechische Kunst, p. 144; Jahrbuch, 1911, p. 232Google Scholar), who suggests a connection with the Knossos miniature fresco on the one hand and the framed women's heads on Melian vases on the other. The discovery of the new parts of the Megaron fresco strengthens the theory that the Phoenician type is derived from the Mycenaean, perhaps by way of Cyprus.

^{page 251 note 3} It may be explained by the process described, Ath. Mitt. 1913, pp. 187–8Google Scholar.

^{page 251 note 4} Rodenwaldt, , Fries d. Megarons, p. 69Google Scholar, note 154 (10).

^{page 252 note 1} This suggests that the fragment of chequer pattern, illustrated by Rodenwaldt, , Fries des Megarons, p. 35Google Scholar, Fig. 17, may after all come from this fresco.

^{page 252 note 2} Ath. Mitt., 1915, pp. 45Google Scholar ff.

^{page 252 note 3} Rodenwaldt, op. cit., p. 22, suggests that the fragments with scale or scallop pattern found by Tsountas in the Megaron came from the frieze; this is still more probable in view of the scallop described above.

^{page 253 note 1} Rodenwaldt, op. cit., coloured plate.

^{page 253 note 2} B.S.A., ix. p. 129Google Scholar, Fig. 85.

^{page 253 note 3} Ath. Mitt., 1915, pp. 45Google Scholar ff.

^{page 253 note 4} ᾿Εφ. ᾿Αρχ., 1887, Pl. XI.

^{page 253 note 5} Fighting before the walls of a besieged castle is in accordance with Homeric practice as described in the Iliad. There, the Trojan army is camped before the walls of Ilion, which we know from the excavations of Schliemann and Doerpfeld to have more nearly resembled a castle than a fortified city (cf. Durm, , Zum Kampf um Troja (1890)Google Scholar, Pl. I.). Here we have a frieze with the besieged castle at one end of the wall, the armies fighting before it, and the camp of the besieging army beyond. It may well be considered as illustrating a siege like the siege of Troy.

^{page 254 note 1} Rodenwaldt, Fries d. Megarons; see also Ath. Mitt., 1911, p. 232Google Scholar. In addition to the fragments described, the following should be added to Rodenwaldt's list: (a) ·055 × ·03 m. Part of neck and mane of horse, joining Rodenwaldt's No. 15 of the Megaron frieze. At Athens, (b) ·055 × ·06 m. Pl. XXVI. c. Boar's tusk helmet finished above with ring. The helmet is yellowish-white, the ring white, the background bluish-black. At Athens.

^{page 254 note 2} See p. 250.

^{page 254 note 3} Rodenwaldt, op. cit., p. 55; Ath. Mitt., 1911, p. 248Google Scholar.

^{page 255 note 1} See Ath. Mitt., 1911, pp. 246, 247Google Scholar.

^{page 255 note 2} Rodenwaldt, , Tirnys, ii. p. 185Google Scholar.

^{page 255 note 3} Ath. Mitt., 1911, p. 248Google Scholar.

^{page 255 note 4} Rodenwaldt, , Tiryns, ii. p. 185Google Scholar. In Fries d. Megarons, pp. 54–55, he speaks of the connection between the style of the fresco and of objects from the Shaft Graves, i.e., the dagger with the lion hunt and the fragments of silver vessels. Though they have many motives in common, the resemblance in style is not sufficient to affect the date of the fresco.

^{page 255 note 5} That is to say, it is earlier than L.H. III., but its position in L.H. I. or L.H. II. cannot yet be defined. And in spite of the resemblance our frescoes are later in style.

^{page 256 note 1} See above, p. 211.

^{page 257 note 1} See p. 207, above.

^{page 258 note 1} ᾿Εφ. ᾿Αρχ., 1887, Pl. XII; Rodenwaldt, , Tiryns, ii. p. 232Google Scholar.

^{page 259 note 1} Cf. Furtwängler-Loeschcke, Myk. Vasen, Pl. XXX.

^{page 259 note 2} Cf. B.S.A., xxiv. Pl. X. 27Google Scholar.

^{page 259 note 3} Πρακτικά, 1886, p. 70Google Scholar. One of the gold beads is perhaps ᾿Εφ. ᾿Αρχ., 1887, Pl. XIII., No. 26, Athens, Nat. Mus. 2501. The others cannot be identified.

^{page 259 note 4} This is also Tsountas' opinion, Πρακτικά, 1886, p. 70.

^{page 260 note 1} Πρακτικά, 1886, p. 70Google Scholar.

^{page 261 note 1} Πρακτικά, 1886, p. 70Google Scholar.

^{page 263 note 1} See pp. 259 ff., above.

^{page 264 note 1} See p. 239.

^{page 265 note 1} Including the interesting house with a colonnaded court, dug by Tsountas but still unpublished. We had hoped to re-examine this area as well.

^{page 265 note 2} Karten v. Mykenai, Pl. II.

^{page 265 note 3} See above, p. 231.

^{page 265 note 4} See the early accounts of the Palace at Tiryns, quoted by Frazer in his commentary on Pausanias, Vol. III. p. 230. Cf. Tsountas, , Πρακτικά, 1886, p. 71Google Scholar.

^{page 266 note 1} The north-west Propylon was perhaps the original entrance, while the Grand Staircase seems from our examination of it, and of the Pillar Basement, to have been an addition made in almost the latest phase of the building, though it may have replaced an earlier staircase.

^{page 269 note 1} See further Dr. Holland's commentary below, pp. 270 ff.

^{page 270 note 1} A.J.A., 1920, p. 326Google Scholar; cf. Blegen, , Korakou, pp. 76 ffGoogle Scholar.

^{page 271 note 1} It is my personal belief that the men of the Tholos Tomb Dynasty came to Greece by sea and may have raided Crete before they reached the mainland.—L. B. H.

^{page 271 note 2} As many perhaps as there were kings who built tholos tombs.

^{page 271 note 3} See above, pp. 211, 231.

^{page 272 note 1} See above, pp. 231 ff.

^{page 272 note 2} See below, pp. 388 ff. In point of scale and workmanship they seem closely related to the masonry of the Treasury of Atreus; probably they are not very far apart in date.

^{page 273 note 1} See above, p. 213.

^{page 273 note 2} See above, pp. 213 ff.

^{page 274 note 1} It must, however, be remembered that this region has not only suffered from continuous denudation and Hellenistic disturbance, but also from exposure to the weather since Tsountas' excavations.—A. J. B. W.

^{page 274 note 2} I seriously question Tsountas' suggestion that a stair led north from the little fore-court thus formed up through 39. Unless the stair were of wood, which seems hardly probable considering the size and importance that a stair in this position would presumably have, there should be traces of masonry left, or cuttings in the rock, and there is absolutely no evidence of either. I think it more likely that 39 was a low unfinished space left when the terrace above was built, and served perhaps as a guardroom like the porter's hole similarly placed inside the Lion Gate.

^{page 275 note 1} See, however, above, p. 209, note 1.

^{page 275 note 2} See above, p. 161.

^{page 276 note 1} This was almost the same in shape and size as the Room of the Throne.

^{page 277 note 1} xix. 4–9.

^{page 277 note 2} xix. 55.

^{page 277 note 3} xix. 388–389.

^{page 277 note 4} xxi. 181.

^{page 277 note 5} The front and rear porticoes are slightly deeper than those on the sides, but the span of the central bays is longer at the sides than at the front and rear. It follows, therefore, that the areas of the central bays on all four sides and the consequent loads to be borne by the architraves are equalled. At Mycenae the areas are 14·04 sq. m. in front and rear and 14·30 sq. m. at the sides.

^{page 278 note 1} Regularly spaced spans would necessitate a smaller hearth; perhaps the irregular spacing was demanded by the size of the hearth.—A. J. B. W.

^{page 278 note 2} Assuming the Megaron to be a living-room, a hole in its roof 4·40 m. by 3·90 m. in area would be extremely inconvenient in the rainy season, when a fire on the hearth would be most needed.—A. J. B. W.

^{page 278 note 3} See above, p. 211.

^{page 278 note 4} Perrot-Chipiez, , Hist, de l'Art, V, Pl. 1, pp. 623, 628Google Scholar, Figs. 386, 392.

^{page 278 note 5} Ibid., op. cit., p. 497, Fig. 318.

^{page 279 note 1} There were not necessarily any partition walls here.—A. J. B. W.

^{page 281 note 1} See above, p. 261.

^{page 282 note 1} See above, p. 222.