. The palace of Minos : a comparative account of the successive stages of the early Cretan civilization as illustrated by the discoveries at Knossos . < < g; mW < Uo HO wm a< < enpq 144 THE PALACE OF MINOS,, ETC. Full Evo-lution ofKnossianPalace,Work II. that Period. It is to this epoch then that we must refer the^ first greatremodelling of the interior arrangements of the Knossian enceinte, whichlinked up and unified what appear to have been a succession of separateblocks ranged round the Central Court. The full evolution of the Palace asweknow it was thus achieved,
. The palace of Minos : a comparative account of the successive stages of the early Cretan civilization as illustrated by the discoveries at Knossos . < < g; mW < Uo HO wm a< < enpq 144 THE PALACE OF MINOS,, ETC. Full Evo-lution ofKnossianPalace,Work II. that Period. It is to this epoch then that we must refer the^ first greatremodelling of the interior arrangements of the Knossian enceinte, whichlinked up and unified what appear to have been a succession of separateblocks ranged round the Central Court. The full evolution of the Palace asweknow it was thus achieved, but as thisconsummation is most conveniently connected with the beginnmg of the SecondMiddle Minoan phase it is better to deal with this and the great sister buildingat Phaestos in their comparative aspects in the iucceeding Section. It seemsnot improbable that the Palace at Phaestos may have passed through a similarstage in which it consisted of a conglomeration of separate units round acentral area, the whole protected bf a more or less square enclosure of boundary Fig. 105. M. M. I Vessels from Stratum below Early Magazines at Phaestos (| c). walls. That elements of the building, the extent of which is as yet imperfectlyascertained, belong to the First Middle Minoan Period is clear from theevidence supplied by the Early Magazines beneath the later light-well ofthe Propylaea. The latest ceramic relics, found in these Early Magazines,which mark the date when they were filled in for the new constructions, arecertain cups of a characteristic type which constantly recurs in associationwith advanced 11, fabrics, and which, both at Phaestos and Knossos,mark a very wide catastrophe at that epoch. But among the remains ina stratum dating from the time that immediately preceded the constructionof the Early Magazines themselves were found vessels of types characteristicof the earliest I phase ^ (Fig- 105). They represent in fact the samecera
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