. The palace of Minos : a comparative account of the successive stages of the early Cretan civilization as illustrated by the discoveries at Knossos . Fig. 236. Plan of Royal Magazines showing Enclave off Landing of GrandStaircase. (The Rectangle shows where Pavement was raised.) Stratum of the Loom-Weight Area. Later on, at the beginning of theL. M. I Period, it appears to have been succeeded by another Hall on a higherlevel but following much the same lines. To this seem to have belongedthe magnificent high-reliefs of painted stucco representing agonistic scenes. The Magazine of the Medallio
. The palace of Minos : a comparative account of the successive stages of the early Cretan civilization as illustrated by the discoveries at Knossos . Fig. 236. Plan of Royal Magazines showing Enclave off Landing of GrandStaircase. (The Rectangle shows where Pavement was raised.) Stratum of the Loom-Weight Area. Later on, at the beginning of theL. M. I Period, it appears to have been succeeded by another Hall on a higherlevel but following much the same lines. To this seem to have belongedthe magnificent high-reliefs of painted stucco representing agonistic scenes. The Magazine of the Medallion Pithoi, however, together with the TheCorridor of the Bays, had no connexion with this upper Hall. They constitute ^^^an enclave, built, as already said, off the first floor of the Domestic Quarter designed for its convenience. From the stately character of the storejars themselves, some of them stamped with official seals, the group ofstructures may be fitly described as par excellence the Royal Magazines. Y 2 TV^S^. lie. SLC(»NLt ANI .xc„„,„. „„ -- s:^,^;- ^«-- j---^ (^-c„., ^ „, f 17. M. M. Ill : (B) The Domestic Quarter. Dramatic development of the Excavation—discovery of Grand Staircaseand Residential Quarter in great East Cutting; The Domestic Quarter;Preservation of Upper Stories; Work of Restoration; Halls of Colonnadesand Double Axes; Queens Megaron; Court of Distaffs; Alteration ofDrainage System; Service Quarter and Staircase; Room of Stone Benchand Upper Hall of Double Axes ; System above Queens Megaron—Bedrooms,Bath-rooms, and Latrines ; Treasury of Shrine ; The Grand Staircase of fiveflights,-—approached from. Central Court; Tapering wooden columns—theirorigin in primitive stone pillars; Low column bases; Use of Cypress wood;Evidence of fluted columns; M. M. HI Construction; Timber frameworkof walls and windows; Important architectural equations supplied by areaof Spiral Fresco ; Chronological data—structural core of
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