. The palace of Minos : a comparative account of the successive stages of the early Cretan civilization as illustrated by the discoveries at Knossos . here two stone drain-heads, a larger and a smaller, both of ^ To Mr, Christian Doll belongs the credit the Room of the Olive Press has in con-of having first realized the true function of sequence of this received the name of thethese basins. The space formerly known as Area of the Stone Drain-heads- M. M. Ill : BORDERS AND BASEMENTS OF E. HALL 379 limestone (see Fig. 275).i The latter showed cement and terra-cotta frag- Verticalments adher
. The palace of Minos : a comparative account of the successive stages of the early Cretan civilization as illustrated by the discoveries at Knossos . here two stone drain-heads, a larger and a smaller, both of ^ To Mr, Christian Doll belongs the credit the Room of the Olive Press has in con-of having first realized the true function of sequence of this received the name of thethese basins. The space formerly known as Area of the Stone Drain-heads- M. M. Ill : BORDERS AND BASEMENTS OF E. HALL 379 limestone (see Fig. 275).i The latter showed cement and terra-cotta frag- Verticalments adhering to its upper surface, which had evidently belonged to a Singcement-cased vertical duct; a section, moreover, of a square-cut terra-cotta Upperconduit, forming an elbow, stood in connexion with this drain-head. Alarger shaft must have run up from the other stone drain-head and the basinof this below opened on a stone conduit, of square section like the other butof larger capacity, the course of which, as will be seen, it was possibleto trace down two terraces to the East. It is clear that the ducts running downwards to these drain-heads were. Fig. 275. Stone Drain-head and Conduit. (Inset, Smaller Drain-head.) from the first surrounded, for their support as well as for the consolidation ofthe platform above, with filling earth ; nothing, indeed, derived from theupper story was found on the floor-level of this area. The stone conduit which proceeded from the larger of the stone drain-heads turned almost immediately East, and at the point where it approachedthe M. M. Ill North-East Portico, described below, a passage had been cut forit through its angle. The course of the stone channel through this Of the original East wall of the area thatcontained the drain-heads and near to whichthey stood, only the substructures wall had originally formed a section of the upper terrace facade line. The drain-heads themselves were set on the platformof the terrace, and th
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