. The palace of Minos : a comparative account of the successive stages of the early Cretan civilization as illustrated by the discoveries at Knossos . of theSarcophagus of Hagia Triada, where the actual pouring of libations beforethe sacred symbols Is depicted, the Double Axes, of which a pair is thereshown, rise from bases with a double gradation and painted according to theusual Late Minoan convention for representing the polychrome veins ofsome decorative The socketed base by the pillar in the South-EastHouse had been doubtless originally coated with painted plaster displaymgsome si
. The palace of Minos : a comparative account of the successive stages of the early Cretan civilization as illustrated by the discoveries at Knossos . of theSarcophagus of Hagia Triada, where the actual pouring of libations beforethe sacred symbols Is depicted, the Double Axes, of which a pair is thereshown, rise from bases with a double gradation and painted according to theusual Late Minoan convention for representing the polychrome veins ofsome decorative The socketed base by the pillar in the South-EastHouse had been doubtless originally coated with painted plaster displaymgsome similar imitation of the grain of variegated stone. 1 I have given a full description of this See below, p. 438, Fig. 315. house in Xnossos. Report, 1903, P- 4 seqq. ^ See Vol. II. Another stepped base found The Room marked l, had been converted into at Palaikastro was rightly recognized by Pro-a shrine in theReoccupationPeriod( III^). fessor Bosanquet as having served a similar ?^ The five upper blocks are of limestone, function {, vui, p. 300).the sixth is of gypsum, and the base block, = See below, p. 440, Fig. 317. again^ 0 <w 0 b0 tJ1-1 <: H0 <:S, ?00 si < o M. M. Ill : WEST PALACE REGION ; DOUBLE AXE CULT 429 From the foot of the pillar here a rough foundation runs to the Northwall of the room. Along this wall were ranged a series of flat stone bases,circular and oblong, that had served as stands for vessels, doubtless contain-mg food and drink offerings. Remains of the pottery itself were foundshowing a dark ground, and of a typically Ill character. In the Southwall was a niche or loculus. This Pillar Crypt was associated with a curious natural phenomenon. EarlyA block at its South-West corner was found to close an aperture leading cornerofmto what seems to have been a natural swallow hole.^ which lower down, P^apparently in the Neolithic Age, had been enlarged into a small artificial cave ^cut out of the soft rock. It was largely fille
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