Historic ornament : treatise on decorative art and architectural ornament (1909)
Ward, James, 1851-1924 · London : Chapman and Hall · leaf 250
to be the Lions Gate of the Mycenian Acropolis (Fig. 277). ART IN PRIMITIVE GREECE. 229 Pausanias thus alludes to \lyQ.Qr\-si and Tiryns :—Aportion of the enclosure wall still remains, and the prin-cipal gate, with the lions over it. These (the walls) were … built by the Cyclops who made the wall at Tiryns forPrseteus. Among the ruins at Mycenae is the fountaincalled Perseia, and the subterraneous buildings of Atreusand his children, in which their treasures were stored. 230 HISTORIC ORNAMENT. The sculptured lions are still there, so is the…
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