. The palace of Minos : a comparative account of the successive stages of the early Cretan civilization as illustrated by the discoveries at Knossos . Fig. 338. Left-hand upper corner of Royal Draught-board. of crystal backed by silver plates, alternating with five of gold-plated ivory.^separate what we may regard as the citadel from another enclosure, witha broad bastion in front and two wings, the flat ivory plaques of which ^ The crystal bars are flat, the ivory are rounded above. The ivory bars were still largelycovered vs^ith their thin gold plating. Ill: THE TEMPLE REPOSITORIES 475
. The palace of Minos : a comparative account of the successive stages of the early Cretan civilization as illustrated by the discoveries at Knossos . Fig. 338. Left-hand upper corner of Royal Draught-board. of crystal backed by silver plates, alternating with five of gold-plated ivory.^separate what we may regard as the citadel from another enclosure, witha broad bastion in front and two wings, the flat ivory plaques of which ^ The crystal bars are flat, the ivory are rounded above. The ivory bars were still largelycovered vs^ith their thin gold plating. Ill: THE TEMPLE REPOSITORIES 475 ?enclose the opening of ten smaller medallions, restored in the coloured Plate. On either side of this bastion were four similar ribbed bars of crystal on silver, with bossed ivory partitions like the wider bars above. Between the two wings of the lower enclosure there were eight flat crystal bars separated by similar bands of ivory. The essential core of the Plan and Character arrangement, stripped of its more of purely decorative elements, isshown in the diagrammatic planFig. 339. The citadel above,with its four disks -fenced roundby its outer ward and. keep, isobviously the goal of the is completely separated offfrom the enclosure below with itstwo wings and bastioned front,which presents ten disks of some-what lesser diameter. It looksas if the game proper had beenplayed on this, one player startingon each wing and the successiveoccupation of the squares of the citadel being dependent on theresults obtained below. The vic-tory in each case may have beenmarked by placing a piece on oneof the upper disks, two wins oneither side making of course adrawn game. It is possible that the horizontalbars were used for marking thescores The flat crystal bars, whether with a ribbed or plain surface, are setbetween the bossed ivory divisions in such a way that any small peucl-hke TheCitadel. Fig. 339. Arrangement of Draught- , DIAGRAMMATICALLY SHOWN. The remains of s
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