48 PELOPONNESUS. 
between Neptune and Juno Hieron of Ceres Mysias 
Antiquity of fictile materials in building Mycenae 
State of the Ruins Extraordinary Sepulchre not the 
Treasury of Atreus Heroum of Perseus Sophocles 
internal evidence of his having visited the spot of the 
Aujua and TlpotrvXaia Toml of Agamemnon Interior 
of the Tumulus Enormous lintel Use of the triangular 
cavity above the entrance Inner chamber Leonine Gate 
Dimensions and description of the Propylaea My- 
thological Synilbls 'Consecrated Gates Of the Pyla- 
gorae ^Egyptian characteristics Worship of the Sun 
Walls of Mycena?. 
CHAP. THE advocates for the early origin of " the 
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pointed style" in Gothic architecture will have 
cause enough for triumph in the Cyclopean 
of Gallery at TIRYNS; exhibiting " lancet arches"' 
Tiryns. almost as antient as the time of Abraham ' : and 
if the learned Pezron have not erred in his 
history of the Gauls, the Citadel itself may be 
considered as a Celtic structure 2 . Be this as it 
may, the subject is certainly curious ; and if it 
(l) The author would have accompanied this by an engraving, but 
it has been superseded by Sir JV. Gelfs most accurate representation 
of the Gallery at Tiryns, as published in his Work, to which the Reader 
is particularly referred. (See GelCs Itinerary of Greece, Plate xvi. 
f. 56. land. 1810. 
(2) See a most ingenious Dissertation on the " dntiquitiet. of 
Mttions," by Paul Pezron. Ijmd. \ 809. 
