. The palace of Minos : a comparative account of the successive stages of the early Cretan civilization as illustrated by the discoveries at Knossos . torage was toact as supports for the pillars of what seems to have been the great EastHall of the Palace, which, in its M. M. Ill shape, was somewhat below the The flat border of the plaster circle was 9-5 cm. in diameter. See below, p. 565 and Fig. 412. Magazineof Medal-lionPithoiand Cor-ridor ofBays. Pierssupportsof GreatEast Hallabove. M. M. Ill: BEGINNING OF THE NEW ERA 32; level of the Central Court. As will be more fully demonstrated below
. The palace of Minos : a comparative account of the successive stages of the early Cretan civilization as illustrated by the discoveries at Knossos . torage was toact as supports for the pillars of what seems to have been the great EastHall of the Palace, which, in its M. M. Ill shape, was somewhat below the The flat border of the plaster circle was 9-5 cm. in diameter. See below, p. 565 and Fig. 412. Magazineof Medal-lionPithoiand Cor-ridor ofBays. Pierssupportsof GreatEast Hallabove. M. M. Ill: BEGINNING OF THE NEW ERA 32; level of the Central Court. As will be more fully demonstrated below, thegeneral plan of this is very clearly suggested by the existing substructuresin this area. That an important upper Hall was in existence here before theclose of the M. M. Ill Period results from a variety of evidence, and it will beshown that the stone drain-heads found on the same terrace-level must bebrought into connexion with the drainage of its roofs and light-court. Inrelation to this may be also placed the early column bases, the Spiral Fresco,and the painted stucco low-reliefs found, as we shall see, in the M. M. Ill ROYAL MAGAZINES. Fig. 236. Plan of Royal Magazines showing Enclave off Landing of GrandStaircase. (The Rectangle shows where Pavement was raised.) Stratum of the Loom-Weight Area. Later on, at the beginning of theL. M. I Period, it appears to have been succeeded by another Hall on a higherlevel but following much the same lines. To this seem to have belongedthe magnificent high-reliefs of painted stucco representing agonistic scenes. The Magazine of the Medallion Pithoi, however, together with the TheCorridor of the Bays, had no connexion with this upper Hall. They constitute ^^^an enclave, built, as already said, off the first floor of the Domestic Quarter designed for its convenience. From the stately character of the storejars themselves, some of them stamped with official seals, the group ofstructures may be fitly described as par excellen
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