The palaces of Crete and their builders . preciousmetals, the ceiling is adornedwith blue enamel, and yet wemight think that these richeswould be spoilt by the smokeand smell of cooking, for thepoems do not refer to aseparate kitchen. Odysseus prepares for the pjQ_ in the museum atslaughter of the suitors by caxdia. telling Telemachus to carry their weapons to the upper rooms, and, if the suitors ask forthem, to say, Out of the smoke I have laid them by—theyare wholly marred, so mightily hath passed upon them thevapour of fire. Even if we suppose the house of Odysseus of modest pro-p
The palaces of Crete and their builders . preciousmetals, the ceiling is adornedwith blue enamel, and yet wemight think that these richeswould be spoilt by the smokeand smell of cooking, for thepoems do not refer to aseparate kitchen. Odysseus prepares for the pjQ_ in the museum atslaughter of the suitors by caxdia. telling Telemachus to carry their weapons to the upper rooms, and, if the suitors ask forthem, to say, Out of the smoke I have laid them by—theyare wholly marred, so mightily hath passed upon them thevapour of fire. Even if we suppose the house of Odysseus of modest pro-portions, surely Hectors palace, with its splendid porticoes andits fifty bedchambers, must have contained a kitchen. This year Dr. Pernier found a Minoan hearth or fireplace(Fig. 139), the first as yet discovered, but, contrary to Homerictradition, it is not in the middle of the hall. It resembles amodern fireplace and stands in one corner of a room in the Od., xix. 4 : tK KaKViw KctTcOijic . . KaTrJKKjTcu, oryaov nvpoQ iKtr 294 PALACES OF CRETE AND THEIR BUILDERS primitive palace at Pha^stos. A stone with a pointed end isplaced against the wall. In front of this are two lateral stoneswith a space between them, about lo centimetres deep, in which
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