. The palace of Minos : a comparative account of the successive stages of the early Cretan civilization as illustrated by the discoveries at Knossos . the Southern Entrance of the Portico and runs thencebeneath the back walls of the later Bastions A and B, on its way to join themain Northern channel.^ A stone-built affluent of this channel, on the of the Central Court, stood beyond, in connexion with a sink or latrine,and was joined by two tributary conduits taking the overflow from a smallearly cistern on the West side of the Court.^ This cistern was brought tolight in 1913, t
. The palace of Minos : a comparative account of the successive stages of the early Cretan civilization as illustrated by the discoveries at Knossos . the Southern Entrance of the Portico and runs thencebeneath the back walls of the later Bastions A and B, on its way to join themain Northern channel.^ A stone-built affluent of this channel, on the of the Central Court, stood beyond, in connexion with a sink or latrine,and was joined by two tributary conduits taking the overflow from a smallearly cistern on the West side of the Court.^ This cistern was brought tolight in 1913, three metres in front of the original frontage line on that side,and may have drawn its supply from a verandah roof ^ p. 141 seqqand Figs. 103, 104. See note i, p. 230, and Plan, Fig. 152, ^ , Fig. 162, and below. Fig. 286. above. I Q 226 THE PALACE OF MINOS, ETC. Each individual quarter or insula of the Palace seems in fact to havehad a dral\iage systemof its own, standing in a tributary relation to thegreat main channels. An important system, of which many remains have been preserved, wasthat of the Domestic Quarter and its Fig. 170. View showing Part of Stone Drain uncovered, below N. Entrance, Knossos. Drainageof Do-mesticQuarter. The general arrangements of its original drainage ^ are shown byMr. Dolls Plans and Sections, Fig. 171, a, b, c. The main conduit formed acomplete circuit consisting of a Northern and a Southern branch, which bothdescended from a water-shed in what was later the corner of the Hallof the Colonnades. The channel, moreover, that resulted from the con- ? We shall see (Vol. II) that in Late Minoan times a radical change took place in a part ofthis system. (J </5 1 r- 1 1 t- \ I D ^l I COURT ^^ OF toDISTAFFS LIGHTWELL
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