. The palace of Minos : a comparative account of the successive stages of the early Cretan civilization as illustrated by the discoveries at Knossos . teppedapproaches as did the later fa9ade on this side, built out some three metresEast of the original line. Rather, it takes on a somewhat defensive aspectas part and parcel of a self-contained structural unit. The curved outline of the angles of this insula supplies an interestingpoint of comparison with the oval building of M. M. I date at Chamaezi inEastern Crete, described below,^ and we may, as there suggested trace thereaction of other ro
. The palace of Minos : a comparative account of the successive stages of the early Cretan civilization as illustrated by the discoveries at Knossos . teppedapproaches as did the later fa9ade on this side, built out some three metresEast of the original line. Rather, it takes on a somewhat defensive aspectas part and parcel of a self-contained structural unit. The curved outline of the angles of this insula supplies an interestingpoint of comparison with the oval building of M. M. I date at Chamaezi inEastern Crete, described below,^ and we may, as there suggested trace thereaction of other rounded types of primitive Cretan and Cycladic buddings. From what has been said above it is clear that the area of the Palace Masswesite at Knossos was laid out in the course of the First Middle Minoan Enceinte. > See my Xnossos, Report, 1,904 (-5. 5. A., turn further on, following the East wall, per- X p 6 qq, § 6 The Earlier West Facade haps, of the Long Gallery so as to include the of L cScourt. and PI. I, a. b). angle ^^ ^e regton o^he ^ This wall may well have taken a northern ^ See p. 147 and Plan, Fig. 108. S^tl^ *-»•. M. M. I: FOUNDATION OF KNOSSIAN PALACE 141 Period, and fenced round with enceinte walls which, on the North and Eastsides, at any rate, were of the most massive construction. The hill-tophad been already levelled to make room for the Central Court, and the mainlines of orientation laid down. But the buildings within the enceinte and insulaeround the Central Court seem to have been largely distributed in isolated Mteblocks. The methodical character of this distribution into insulae is bestbrought out by the diagrammatic Plan of the Palace given below at thebeginning of \ Amongst these this early Keep or Tower occupieda prominent place, dominating the Northern Entrance Passage and Sea-Gate, as it existed in its original form. Both m the massive walls and in this tower-like structure we see the Signs ofobvious design of fortification,
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