. The palace of Minos : a comparative account of the successive stages of the early Cretan civilization as illustrated by the discoveries at Knossos . Fig. 327. View showing Structures of Kaselles beneath later pavement of magazine 8, a part ofthis had been previously ruined by treasure-seekers III. FLOOR-CISTS OF W. PALACE REGION 457 In the case of the Eighth Magazine there was Httle but filling earth ineither the upper or lower receptacle, stained green, apparently owing to theaction of the lead sheeting. The upper receptacles indeed, both here andelsewhere, were largely empty, the pavi
. The palace of Minos : a comparative account of the successive stages of the early Cretan civilization as illustrated by the discoveries at Knossos . Fig. 327. View showing Structures of Kaselles beneath later pavement of magazine 8, a part ofthis had been previously ruined by treasure-seekers III. FLOOR-CISTS OF W. PALACE REGION 457 In the case of the Eighth Magazine there was Httle but filling earth ineither the upper or lower receptacle, stained green, apparently owing to theaction of the lead sheeting. The upper receptacles indeed, both here andelsewhere, were largely empty, the paving slabs simply resting on the edgesof the cists without the support of interior filling. The lower intervals of thecists, however, examined in other Magazines were found packed with rubble Relicsmaterial, including many odd slips of gypsum slabs and quantities of limy beneathearth, thus exactly reproducing the phenomena observed in cists b of the Long J^^^j^. Fig. 328. M. M. Ill POTTERV FOUND BENEATH FLOOR OF Magazine. ? Kasella IN THE Fourth Gallery. One gypsum fragment from the Thirteenth Magazine had been rudely scratched with lines, intended no doubt to be parallel, between which some scribe had practised engraving characters of the Linear Script A, Fig. 458. The precious nature of the original contents of the kaselles was evidenced by the discovery in their lower interspaces of not inconsiderable quantities of gold-foil, so largely used at this time for covering carved and inlaid materials. In the fifth kasella from the West end of Magazine 5 quite a sheet of this was found crumpled up amidst the earth and rubble. In some cases there was a certain amount of pottery, all, as far as it presented distinctive j^_^ j^j features, of the M. M. HI class. Among such remains the group shown Pottery in Fig. 328, found in the lower compartment of a kasella of Magazine 4, nal Cists. 46o THE PALACE OF MINOS, ETC. as is illustrated by the view of
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