Mycenae : a narrative of researches and discoveries at Mycenae and Tiryns (1878)
Schliemann, Heinrich, 1822-1890 · New York, Scribner, Armstrong · leaf 107
d on an average 16 feet thick.Their entire circuit still exists, but they have evidently beenmuch higher. They are of beautiful hard breccia, with whichthe neighbouring mountains abound. They follow thesinuosities of the rock, and show three different kinds ofarchitecture. By far the greater… … No. 17. Walls of the First Period. with the words, Walls of the first period. A large pieceof the western wall I have marked on the accompanying cut(No. 18) as Walls of the second period, because it consistsof polygons, fitted together with great art, so that, in spiteof the infinite variety of the…
