. The palace of Minos : a comparative account of the successive stages of the early Cretan civilization as illustrated by the discoveries at Knossos . zines 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
. The palace of Minos : a comparative account of the successive stages of the early Cretan civilization as illustrated by the discoveries at Knossos . zines 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 sameceramic stage as that found immediately beneath the foundation slabs ofthe Palace at Knossos. The spouted type on the right is in itself an inheri-tance from E. M, 111.^ The two Palaces, in fact, seem to have been founded This interesting observation regarding the was kindly supplied me by Dr. in which the M. M. I pottery was found ^ See above, pp. ^^ o < H o^;o KH(<^O H HSto <: IB o 146 THE PALACE OF MINOS, ETC. M. M. IBasementwithMono-lithic Pil-lars atKnossos. Early ofSanc-tuary. at the same epoch—at a mature stage, that is, of the M. M. I phase—andin many respects repeat each others history. Among the best preserved structures of the hill of Knossos which mustbe referred to the beginning of this Period, and even preceded the founda-tion of the Palace as we know it, is a deep basement chamber withtwo monolithic pillars excavated in the angle of the Palace area(Fig. 106). Whether or not this structure formed an annexe of a largerbuilding,^ it is interesting as supplying the earliest example of the Pillar Rooms that play such an important part in Minoan buildings, andwhich, in many cases, certainly served a religious purpose as the crypts
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