. Discovery. Science. DISCOVERY 249 sulphate. It was so soft that it needed a covering of Hme plaster to protect it against the weather. The palace was a square building covering about five acres, or as big an area as Buckingham Palace, and had a flat roof. In shape it was a hollow rectangle with a central court open to the sky. The west wing stood higher up the hillside and had fewer stories than the east \ving, whose foundations sloped down to the valley. Beyond the west wing there was another court, and out to the north-west a smaller palace connected with the main building by what Sir Arth
. Discovery. Science. DISCOVERY 249 sulphate. It was so soft that it needed a covering of Hme plaster to protect it against the weather. The palace was a square building covering about five acres, or as big an area as Buckingham Palace, and had a flat roof. In shape it was a hollow rectangle with a central court open to the sky. The west wing stood higher up the hillside and had fewer stories than the east \ving, whose foundations sloped down to the valley. Beyond the west wing there was another court, and out to the north-west a smaller palace connected with the main building by what Sir Arthur Evans has called " the oldest paved road in ; At a point in this road stood the theatre, and there is nothing to prevent us from identifying it with the dancing-place (clioros) which, so tradition tells us, "Daedalus wrought in broad Knossos for fair-haired ; ' It would hold about 500 spectators, who made part or all of the " great throng that surrounded the lovel}' dancing-place, fuU of glee," if we may trust the same tradition. No doubt the boxing contests and other forms of sport were held there. The Cretans, to judge by the pictures which have been discovered, were given to strenuous and , possibly cruel, forms of sport. A painted panel depicts a bull-fighting scene. There are two girls and a boy, the girls dis- tinguished from the boy by their white skin, although all three wear the same sort of " cowboy " dress. A bull, head down, is charging one of the girls, who grips its horns in the attempt, apparently, to turn a somersault over its back, a feat which the boy is repre- sented as in the process of accomphshing. He is half- way over, and the second girl stands ready to catch him. V The mass of buildings in the west wing of the palace (for plan of the palace see Crete the Forerunner of Greece, by C. H. and H. B. Hawes, p. 48) is divided into two by a long corridor running north and south, that in the east
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