Vouni, Korakas and the palaceAlfred Westholm

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… out towards the dromos too (see the plan). The gateway was in its upper parts completely destroyed. Whether the door-stone was displaced by the collapse or by intruding tomb robbers, who however have left no other traces behind them, is uncertain. The dromos shows several peculiarities. At the far end there are two steps, after which the floor slopes steeply in towards the door c 2 m, where there is a ledge (approx. 80 cm). This takes up the whole breadth of the dromos. At the same height as the floor of the ledge there is a niche which however is probably only a flaw in the rock (see the plan). In front of the gateway is a 1,80 m long bath-shaped depression. The long side-walls of this are raised, higher than the ledge. As the gateway has partly collapsed, the stomion is thus less well preserved and hardly … continues