. The palace of Minos : a comparative account of the successive stages of the early Cretan civilization as illustrated by the discoveries at Knossos . nts but theimmediately underlyingstrata were At Knossos, accord-ing to the Early Palacearrangement, a considerable area on the North-East slope was occupied bya series of Magazines devoted to the storage of these knobbed oil jars (seePlan, Fig. 152). The great size of these pithoi will be gathered from the view given ofreconstituted specimens in Fig. 175. The supplementary explorations inconnexion with these Magazines, conducted in 19
. The palace of Minos : a comparative account of the successive stages of the early Cretan civilization as illustrated by the discoveries at Knossos . nts but theimmediately underlyingstrata were At Knossos, accord-ing to the Early Palacearrangement, a considerable area on the North-East slope was occupied bya series of Magazines devoted to the storage of these knobbed oil jars (seePlan, Fig. 152). The great size of these pithoi will be gathered from the view given ofreconstituted specimens in Fig. 175. The supplementary explorations inconnexion with these Magazines, conducted in 1913, show that they extendedover a neighbouring area named from the stone spout in the later (M. M. Ill),light court wall there visible,.and the spaces immediately South of it. Aterminus ad quern for the dating of the oil jars themselves was, moreover,supplied by a conclusive piece of evidence. The base of one of these greatpithoi was found in situ, with part of its circumference actually beneath the1 This was notably the case in the Magazine the Corridor of the Bays (see?. 320, Fig. 233,of the Medallion Pithoi immediately East of and Fig. 278),. Fig. 174. Bossed PitJios (M. M. H), Phaestos.(IIeight 1-28 M.)
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