Ægean archæeology; an introduction to the archæeology of prehistoric Greece . // ,.M. //. //, l<X( )SS( IS 1. IJii;hs-i:^E IE 111 WW. i:A^ri:KN suhM: 2. KxiAATINi; TIIK VVKSTKKN IAI.ArK TOWNS AND PALACES 123 stone antae were faced with wood, and there waspossibly a wooden threshold as well, and wooden doors,no doubt often plated with bronze, which have longdisappeared. The pillars which bore the roofs ofchambers, loggias, and stairways were often of acharacteristic Minoan form, round and increasingregularly in girth towards the capital, which was ofsimple form, consisting of a bulging t
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Ægean archæeology; an introduction to the archæeology of prehistoric Greece . // , .M. //. //, l<X( )SS( IS 1. IJii;hs-i:^E IE 111 WW. i:A^ri:KN suhM: 2. KxiAATINi; TIIK VVKSTKKN IAI.ArK TOWNS AND PALACES 123 stone antae were faced with wood, and there waspossibly a wooden threshold as well, and wooden doors, no doubt often plated with bronze, which have longdisappeared. The pillars which bore the roofs ofchambers, loggias, and stairways were often of acharacteristic Minoan form, round and increasingregularly in girth towards the capital, which was ofsimple form, consisting of a bulging torus surmountedby a square flat cap. At Knossos these were usuallypainted red, sometimes perhaps blue as well, and nodoubt columns existed which have now disappearedwhich had spiral and zigzag decoration, painted orcarved, like the two great half-pillars of the same typewhich decorated the door of the great tomb called the Treasury of Atreus at Mycenae, which are now inthe British Museum (PL V). Other pillars of the same type no doubt had capitalslike that shewn in the fre