. The palace of Minos : a comparative account of the successive stages of the early Cretan civilization as illustrated by the discoveries at Knossos . alling, atabout 1-25 m. below the surface, there came to light, lying on their sides, plainM. M. Ill jars, some showing drip ornament of a class well represented In Magazines belonging to that Period. Below this was a layer of wood-ashes packed with painted sherds similar to the pottery found In the adjoinino-Basement of the Loom Weights, and which, as will be shown below, belong tothe concluding M. M. 11 phase, {6). Beneath was a pale c
. The palace of Minos : a comparative account of the successive stages of the early Cretan civilization as illustrated by the discoveries at Knossos . alling, atabout 1-25 m. below the surface, there came to light, lying on their sides, plainM. M. Ill jars, some showing drip ornament of a class well represented In Magazines belonging to that Period. Below this was a layer of wood-ashes packed with painted sherds similar to the pottery found In the adjoinino-Basement of the Loom Weights, and which, as will be shown below, belong tothe concluding M. M. 11 phase, {6). Beneath was a pale clayey stratum 20 with similar sherds, and underlying this again was another deposit ofwood ashes 45 cm. thick, the result of some earlier local conflagration, em-bedded in which was the egg-shell ware in the shape of cups and bowls, and For a coloured .illustration of this seeknossos, Report, 1903 {, ix, p. ig, andPI. II. 2). It was found, about metresdown, in the area immediately E. of the Room of the Stone Drain-heads. ^ Cf. Knossos, Report, 1902, p. n8 ; but theterminology there employed is necessarilyantiquated. PLATE II.
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