. The palace of Minos : a comparative account of the successive stages of the early Cretan civilization as illustrated by the discoveries at Knossos . wn by means of the descending ducts from the lightCourt of the great East Hall, the existence of which, as we have seen, isestablished by so many converging lines of evidence. As noted above, the sherds found in the blind-well include not only•the ceramic phase of the early M. M. Ill class which would represent thestage marked by the spiral fresco and reliefs, but also cover the concludingphase to which the Medallion Pithoi tripod pots and other
. The palace of Minos : a comparative account of the successive stages of the early Cretan civilization as illustrated by the discoveries at Knossos . wn by means of the descending ducts from the lightCourt of the great East Hall, the existence of which, as we have seen, isestablished by so many converging lines of evidence. As noted above, the sherds found in the blind-well include not only•the ceramic phase of the early M. M. Ill class which would represent thestage marked by the spiral fresco and reliefs, but also cover the concludingphase to which the Medallion Pithoi tripod pots and other vessels of theimmediately overlying floor-levels belong. It looks then as if the M. M. IllEast Hall including the light-court from which the conduit started had insome restored form survived to the end of the present Period. As a matterof fact the Magazines below it, though renovated now and provided withgypsum paving and dadoes, continued still in use. Even when, at the close ^ See Plan, Fig. 171a, facing p. 227. M. M. Ill: BORDERS AND BASEMENTS OF E. HALL ^,8] I n Fterba-cotta r I 1 . HEAD AND STONE DRAIN , , |CHANNELrF=n f Ljc*r, I I. Fig. 276. Plan of ^ge System of Early East Hall (M. M. III). 382 THE PALACE OF MINOS, ETC. of this Period, these Magazines were filled in to provide a- higher- platformfor what seems to have been a Late Minoan* version of the same great Palace •Hall, itldoks as if the light-area of this had been connected up with theolder drainage system-and the presence of a certain proportion of L. M. Isherds ,in the topmost layer corroborates this conclusion. It wotild thusappear that this later Hall had substantially followed the same lines as itsMiddle Minoan predecessor. It is to this later Hall that I have ventured
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