SlPYLUS AND ITS MONUMENTS. 53 The masonry of the rampart throughout, like the walls of the Acropolis, presents great variety. Thus, on the western and part of the eastern face (F, G, D, in plan), it is frankly polygonal ; some- times the courses are horizontal, but with oblique joints (E), whilst at c it very much resembles Hellenic work (Fig. 27). The principal entrance was approached by a flight of steps, which seems to have been on the northern face (q), where the wall breaks off suddenly, leaving a space i m. 50 c. wide. According to Weber (from FIG. 25. Sanctuary. Wall of chamber. '* '3 K'J WEBER, Le Sipylos, Plate III. FlG. 26. Sanctuary. Section through F H. WEBER, Ibid. whom the foregoing description is taken), no traces of structures, to speak of, exist on the plateau, save the sinking in the northern court already referred to, and some pmtm few remains on the southern face (s, /). But these are so character- less as to throw no light on the nature of the original buildings. For what purpose were the ramparts and the chamber erected, is a question to which no certain answer can be given. For although the first notion suggested by the presence of a rampart on an in- sulated plateau is that of a strong- hold, there are features about it which seem to
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-><3i_ --.- "" -' ~ 1fc. V ',**** . : .'i ,--^w' < sr*^^^53^^ fc ^ | ^ot-' us:ci WEBER, Ibid. FIG. 27. Sanctuary. Surrounding wall on the north-west. rebut such an hypothesis. In the first place, the fastness would have been very far removed from human habitation ; in the
