. The palace of Minos : a comparative account of the successive stages of the early Cretan civilization as illustrated by the discoveries at Knossos . ^y^^-that of the second landing of the Grand Staircase. The latest sherds underintact portions of the pavement of the Hall of the Double Axes were still See Section, Fig. 187, i>, and compare the the M. M. Ill iJ store-jars rested was of stucco. Plan, Fig. 187, a, p. 250, above. It was on this that remains of a smaller spiral In the floor section of the Magazine of the fresco were found, contemporary in style with Medallion Pithoi (p. 320, Fi
. The palace of Minos : a comparative account of the successive stages of the early Cretan civilization as illustrated by the discoveries at Knossos . ^y^^-that of the second landing of the Grand Staircase. The latest sherds underintact portions of the pavement of the Hall of the Double Axes were still See Section, Fig. 187, i>, and compare the the M. M. Ill iJ store-jars rested was of stucco. Plan, Fig. 187, a, p. 250, above. It was on this that remains of a smaller spiral In the floor section of the Magazine of the fresco were found, contemporary in style with Medallion Pithoi (p. 320, Fig. 233, above) the the other. See p. 374, below,floor underlying the gypsum slabbing on which 03^ THE PALACE OF MINOS, ETC. M. M. III. So, too, In the Hall and its dependencies, submerged atthe end of the Middle Minoan Age, and on the floors of which M. M. Ill 6vessels were found in situ, the system of low limestone column bases andgypsum dadoes was already adopted. If, therefore, a good deal of thestructural core of the Domestic Quarter must be referred to the earlierphase of M. M. Ill, we must at the same time recognize that there was a. a. Window N. of W. Light-Area of Hall of Double Axes, as found. wholesale re-modelling towardsthe close, of this Period. Its outward archi-tectural features in fact better range themselves with the Late ::;::.- The evidences of the massive frameworlc illustrated above were no-where more conspicuous-than in the. case of-the window openings. Thegreat beams and posts of these were boldly designed to support tons ofsuperincumbent masonry, and the carbonization of the wooden material hadresulted in a serious fall of the overlying blocks, which gave occasion for muchdifficult work of reconstitution. In Fig, 253 a is seen the window of theLower East-West Corridor, looking on the W. Light-Areaof the Hall of the Ill: THE DOMESTIC QUARTER 353 Double Axes, as it was uncovered, only a small space of the original openingbei
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