. Excavations at Phylakopi in Melos,. potsherds werevery scarce and whole vases were not found. c 18 D. G. HOGARTH The last group of rooms opened in the season lay to west of these ;and here again a square pillar was found in situ rising in a single blockfrom a slab on the Second City floor level, which appears at a depth of (Fig. 9). Near it, and almost on the floor level, were found fivepainted pedestal vases (two found in 1899) and a column base, lying loose inthe earth of the same deposit in the communicating chamber on the chambers were dug out to the rock at a depth
. Excavations at Phylakopi in Melos,. potsherds werevery scarce and whole vases were not found. c 18 D. G. HOGARTH The last group of rooms opened in the season lay to west of these ;and here again a square pillar was found in situ rising in a single blockfrom a slab on the Second City floor level, which appears at a depth of (Fig. 9). Near it, and almost on the floor level, were found fivepainted pedestal vases (two found in 1899) and a column base, lying loose inthe earth of the same deposit in the communicating chamber on the chambers were dug out to the rock at a depth of 320 metresin the following season (1899), and a good deal of scarlet colouringmatter was found in broken vases lying level with the pillar base, on thefloor of the Second City. Below this began to appear Melian saucers,two being found fitted together. Above all Avas found (and removed)a small paved tank Avhich belonged to the Third City. Under one of itsslabs were broucdit to ligfht fragfments of a bronze two-handled vessel;. Fig. 9.—Monulithk Pillak. and below this again appeared a paving slab, creating the impression thatan earlier tank had originally occupied the same position. South of this block of chambers the surface of the ground slopedupwards and the uppermost structures proved to be more deeply buried under alight and unproductive supersoil. Mycenaean walls and remains, adouble-wicked terracotta lamp and the bust of an idol, did not begin toappear till over a metre of deposit had been removed. Immediately to southof the western Pillar Chamber appeared a maze of small passage-like roomsin which nothing of moment Avas found. The rock lay at an average depthof four metres, and the usual three-fold stratificatiou was jjarticularly clear incertain rooms. In one chamber occurred a unique fragment of wall stuccowitii red, blue, and black rosettes on a white ground, at a depth of nearlytwo metres. 1 The apparent doMiiwaiil tapering of the piUar is chie to tlie
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