oil is that at Palatitza described above 2. Likethe houses of the period it has the long vestibule and thecourtyard surrounded with columns; in common withearlier Minoan nalaces it has the larere courtvard with 240 Greek House of the [CH. disproved by Dr Marquand {A J.A. 1905)1. We certainlyhave in… … Fig. 41. Palace at Nippur history of Greek domestic architecture and was commonin Hellenistic times. The compound piers at the angles of the peristyleand the elliptical columns of the trpoBvpov betray thelate origin of the palace, and may be compared with 1 pp. 7 sqq. Hilprecht, Explorations in…