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could not ascertain this with certainty, the lateral walls having been entirely destroyed in the places where the doorway ought to have been. We at first supposed this edifice to have formed a separate gate for the precinct of the two temples. But we have again become sceptical about this, through the discovery on the north side of several chambers (z y), which are joined to it, the extent of which, however, we could not ascertain. In all the rooms of this edifice the floor consists of beaten clay, which has apparently been artificially baked, and which extended also over the large threshold and the base-stones of the parastades, so far as these had not been occupied by the wooden posts.

As may be seen from Plan VII. the north-eastern part of the Acropolis is occupied by a number of house-walls (marked W on Plan VII.), some of which run parallel with the temples, others at right angles to them; of all of them, however, there remain only the foundations of calcareous stones cemented with clay. Here also the third settlers had erected their houses immediately over the edifices of the second city, and in doing so they had so completely destroyed the upper part of them, that it is now hardly possible to determine their ground plan. But we can at least recognize from the remains that there existed here a very large edifice, containing many large halls.

We are somewhat better informed regarding the great edifice which occupied the whole western part of the Acropolis, though here too all the upper walls have been destroyed, either in the great catastrophe of the second city or by the third settlers when they built their town. Among the house-walls of the second city, which we brought to light in the western part of the citadel, beneath those of the third settlers, we must distinguish two different kinds of walls, which, as before mentioned, we have indicated on Plan VII. with black and red colour. The walls