. The palace of Minos : a comparative account of the successive stages of the early Cretan civilization as illustrated by the discoveries at Knossos . mally ^ It lies outside the area of the existingPalace, and its orientation is somewhatdivergent. ^ See vol. ii and cf. A. J. E., Pillar Rooms, &c. p. 63 seqq. {Archaeologia, 1914). See below, p. 172, and Mackenzie,,/ If. S.,xxvi, pp. 244-8, Pis. VII, IX. ^ J. H. S., 1901, p. 79, Fig. I. I: FOUNDATION OF KNOSSIAN PALACE 147 of rectangular construction. An exception to this rule is, however, supplied m. m. a house excavated on a height
. The palace of Minos : a comparative account of the successive stages of the early Cretan civilization as illustrated by the discoveries at Knossos . mally ^ It lies outside the area of the existingPalace, and its orientation is somewhatdivergent. ^ See vol. ii and cf. A. J. E., Pillar Rooms, &c. p. 63 seqq. {Archaeologia, 1914). See below, p. 172, and Mackenzie,,/ If. S.,xxvi, pp. 244-8, Pis. VII, IX. ^ J. H. S., 1901, p. 79, Fig. I. I: FOUNDATION OF KNOSSIAN PALACE 147 of rectangular construction. An exception to this rule is, however, supplied m. m. a house excavated on a height at Chamaezi, in the Siteia Province, ^°^^-by Dr. Xanthudides.^ The top of a lofty knoll had been here levelledin Minoan times to make room for a building which, following the lines House ofof the site itself, was of elliptical outline (Fig. 108). Its date is fixed by vases and other objects found on its floors, which were characteristicproducts of the M. M. I culture.^ This house is of exceptional interest, not only from its oval outline, but Ovalas affording a good early example of the Minoan system of lighting the chame°i W. VOTIVE^ CLAY FIGURES AXES. &0. ; « 3 t f 1, 7 8 5M I I I I I I I I I I I I h I Fig. 108. Oval House, Chamaezi (). interior by means of light-wells, here represented by a single rectangularcourt of small dimensions in the centre of the building (12). In Room 4, more-over, was found the earliest example of a movable hearth in the formof a flat clay disk hollowed in the centre, while ashes that had probablybelonged to it lay near. Dr. Noack has put forward an ingenious theory that the house of , with its oval outline, squared inner chambers, and small oblong Theory,central court, supplies an example of an aboriginal type of rounded buildingout of which the elaborate rectangular plan of the Cretan Palaces was ^ E^. Apx; 1906, p. 117 seqq. Cf. B. , xiv, pp. 417-18. L 2 148 THE PALACE OF MINOS, ETC.; . - It is impos
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