. The palace of Minos : a comparative account of the successive stages of the early Cretan civilization as illustrated by the discoveries at Knossos . FORE-HALL OFINITIATORY AREA VM C-/Z/a m Plan of North-West Portico. for some ceremony ofanointing, probably thecompleting touch of apurificatory function. The Lustral Basin andsurrounding InitiatoryArea formed, as hasbeen already observed,a Temenos within the North Western Bailey which juts forward infront of the main Palacewall-line on this side. Access to it, as shown above (see Plan, Fig. 291), was gained throughthe covered area of the North-
. The palace of Minos : a comparative account of the successive stages of the early Cretan civilization as illustrated by the discoveries at Knossos . FORE-HALL OFINITIATORY AREA VM C-/Z/a m Plan of North-West Portico. for some ceremony ofanointing, probably thecompleting touch of apurificatory function. The Lustral Basin andsurrounding InitiatoryArea formed, as hasbeen already observed,a Temenos within the North Western Bailey which juts forward infront of the main Palacewall-line on this side. Access to it, as shown above (see Plan, Fig. 291), was gained throughthe covered area of the North-West Portico, itself approached by a ramp orstepway, in connexion with a road-line from the West. This Portico,^ ofwhich the Plan is here repeated in Fig. 305,^ is distinguished by its bi-columnaropening on a small light-area on its E. side, one of the column bases of which,of fine grey and white veined limestone, is the best example existing in situof the high Middle Minoan class.* Considerable remains also exist bothin the covered and open part of this area of the fine mosaiko, pavementcharacteristic of M. M. II. That in its original form thi
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