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Lion’s Gate

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Paul Edoka, Cameron Davis, Johnson Dunham

 

     The Lion Gate is found in the citadel of Mycenae  where it was the only entrance and exit out of the. After the Lion's Gate there is a Gauntlet wall where intruders would have been pumeled with arrow and

boiling oil.

 

    The Lion's Gate had 4 main materials, Rock, Gold, and Clay. This Cycleopean wall has a foundation

of small stones and clay. The Thickness of the wall is about 4.6 meters( about 15 ft.). The front and back of the wall are rock slabs but the inside is only ruble and earth. A few of the rocks have been altered with hammers or saws but most of the rocks are untouched by human hands. The wall has limestone relief over the gate which was mand to mask triangular space ofver the lintel of the gateway. On the limestone relief are two lions looking at each other on either side of a column. When the city of Mycenae was flourishing the lion's head were made of gold but the golden heads are long gone.

 

     

 

     

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

( Picture Above from, 1902 Encycolopedia

http://www.1902encyclopedia.com/M/MYC/mycenae.html)

 

 

 

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