Ægean archæeology; an introduction to the archæeology of prehistoric Greece . are Middle Minoan roomswhich were filled up with a sort of beton or concrete oflime, clay, and stones (called by the diggers acrrpaxa-cr^ea-Tov) when the theatral area was remodelled. AtHagia Triada too, there were Middle Minoan construc-tions before the palace was built, but we cannot say thatthere had been a regular palace there before the LateMinoan building. The main characteristics of Minoan palace-con-struction were the central courts, the fine broad stair-ways of low tread (the easiest stairways that ever onem
Ægean archæeology; an introduction to the archæeology of prehistoric Greece . are Middle Minoan roomswhich were filled up with a sort of beton or concrete oflime, clay, and stones (called by the diggers acrrpaxa-cr^ea-Tov) when the theatral area was remodelled. AtHagia Triada too, there were Middle Minoan construc-tions before the palace was built, but we cannot say thatthere had been a regular palace there before the LateMinoan building. The main characteristics of Minoan palace-con-struction were the central courts, the fine broad stair-ways of low tread (the easiest stairways that ever onemounted), open columned porticos, walls of rubble orof great stone blocks, set in a light clay mortar andplastered or faced with thin slabs of gypsum, passagespaved with the same thin slabs of gypsum, pilaster-bases, of the same gypsum, of double-T shape, round XXr -•^^jjK^StSC^^Si jbL- y .^^^1 aj^jp^^f^l^-^ -^-tiacAiiwB !^mr t^^ -^Wef^ ?-?? .-J. .-^H^l ^SOHt ^SKlff^iir^^*^ m S%f;j V^-: ^^^^^^^B^^^^ y ^^l^^^^^^^^^^l m^ ^^^^p.^ft^tf^BiB^-^ts^^M^i^^^lp^^^^^^^^l. /?/;,./,. //, //, KXOSS( )S 1. .Mai;azine \\v\ II IniH > 2. TiiK Great Siairuav TOWNS AND PALACES 121 pillar bases often o£ variegated marble, the charac-teristic light-wells, the careful drainage-system, and II ? [••• r^tir-f^_ ^j^ 1 LEVEL PAKTIAL 5
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