Ægean archæeology; an introduction to the archæeology of prehistoric Greece . s of the towns. The same methodsof construction are employed in both ; the same rubblewalls faced with plaster, the same use of wooden beamsto strengthen the construction and bear the flat the occasional use of ashlar to fix a corner firmlyhas become a regular use for the facing of walls, andthe occasional small pillars in the centre of rooms havebecome great pillars, often ranked in colonnades. Onesees a transition from humble house to mighty palace inthe small building on the top of the town-hill of Gourn
Ægean archæeology; an introduction to the archæeology of prehistoric Greece . s of the towns. The same methodsof construction are employed in both ; the same rubblewalls faced with plaster, the same use of wooden beamsto strengthen the construction and bear the flat the occasional use of ashlar to fix a corner firmlyhas become a regular use for the facing of walls, andthe occasional small pillars in the centre of rooms havebecome great pillars, often ranked in colonnades. Onesees a transition from humble house to mighty palace inthe small building on the top of the town-hill of Gourniawhich is usually dignified with the name of palace (PI. XI, 2). Here we find ashlar walls on fine foundationblocks, a little colonnade, and an open space with anexedra which is a small edition of the great courts ofKnossos and Phaistos. The Gournia palace is nodoubt a small local imitation of the great were doubtless many such ; each local chieftainwould have his little Versailles, and so in each town theResidenz of the Landesfiirst (or rather Stadtsfilrst,. TOWNS AND PALACES ti9 Burggraf)iose amid and above the homes of his great over-kings at Knossos or Phaistos, however,put more distance between themselves and their under-lings. Originally Knossos was probably much likeGournia, a town surmounted by the princely early in Cretan history, when wealth and powerhad begun to come to Knossian princes, the commonfolk were banished from the hill, the town was de-molished, and the whole site occupied by a new townsmen found new abodes on the slopes near by,where some of their houses were discovered by ^ The same thing seems to have happened atPhaistos, though at Hagia Triada the palace wasprobably an entirely new foundation.^ At Knossosthe whole top of the town-hill was apparently razedoff to make the great flat space which is occupiedby the broad open inner court of the palace, the maga-zines which were the cellars of a
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