. The palace of Minos : a comparative account of the successive stages of the early Cretan civilization as illustrated by the discoveries at Knossos . ? ASECTIor^OF P NEOLITHIC rrrrmrl ,30 LCENTIMETMS Fig. 233. Section beneath M. M. Ill b Pavement of Magazine of Medallion Pithoi. Section in the course of test excavations made in x 913 beneath the gypsum pavement i?nf oT of the Magazine of the Medallion pithoi (Fig. 233), which, together with Medal- t^e adjoining Corridor of the Bays, formed an annexe to the first floor of p°thoi. the Domestic Quarter. A terminus d^quo for this pavement was sup
. The palace of Minos : a comparative account of the successive stages of the early Cretan civilization as illustrated by the discoveries at Knossos . ? ASECTIor^OF P NEOLITHIC rrrrmrl ,30 LCENTIMETMS Fig. 233. Section beneath M. M. Ill b Pavement of Magazine of Medallion Pithoi. Section in the course of test excavations made in x 913 beneath the gypsum pavement i?nf oT of the Magazine of the Medallion pithoi (Fig. 233), which, together with Medal- t^e adjoining Corridor of the Bays, formed an annexe to the first floor of p°thoi. the Domestic Quarter. A terminus d^quo for this pavement was supplied by Ill: BEGINNING OF THE NEW ERA 321 of a row oi pithoi found upon it, decorated with medallions showingwhite rosettes, more fully described below, as typical products of theclosing M. M. Ill phase.^ The carbonizing process due to the oil whichthese originally contained had much blackened the gypsum slabbing, and ko °Pave-this process had extended to two strata below. At a depth of 37 cm. beneath ments:this gypsum floor, immediately resting on the Neolithic clay, was a pave- Fig. 234. Section beneath \\\b Pavement of Magazine of Medallion Pithoi,SHOWING Intermediate Strata and M. M. II i^ Mosaiko Floor below, with Plaster Stand forLARGE Oil Jar. ment of the \\b mosaiko class,^ consisting of polygonal slabs ofvery fine limestone, the interstices of which were filled with white some pavements of this class the plaster is bright red. In the overlying deposit above this mosaiko floor lay shallow bowls, inter-small plain vessels and fragments, a few M. M. II, but mostly typical of the ^^^\ixM. M. Ill class. At 17 cm. above it was a plaster floor over which was carbonized layer, 5 cm. thick, with further Ill sherds. Then followedanother plaster floor and a similar deposit, still rrtore carbonized, imme- See p. 562 seqq. and Fig. 409. ^ See above, p. 210. I V ?22 THE PALACE OF MINOS, ETC. diately underlying the gypsum slabs of
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