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§ 5°- 'House of the Chancel Screen' and 'Royal Villa'.
M. M. Illa features of South-East House; Neighbouring ' House of the
Chancel Screen' ; Entrance and Plan ; ' Megaron' with ' Chancel Screen'
and dais for ' Seat of Honour' ; Parallel with ' Royal Villa ' ; Earliest
Pottery on floors M.M. I/Ih; The 'Royal Villa'—its dramatic discovery ;
Plan of House; Double flights of Stairs; Fine Painted far in 'Palace
Style' on landing; Loiver Entrance System ; Small private Court for house-
holder ; The ' Megaron'—Platform and niche within Balustrade; ' Seat of
Honour'; Interspace designed as light-well; Analogies with Christian
Basilica; Pillar Crypt—Channels and Vats for liquid offerings; Timber
beams restored from indications preserved; One-columned Sanctuary above,
cotmected by special staircase; Upper flights of main stairs; Principal Entrance
probably from Upper Terrace ; Upper 'Megaron' with Balustrade and Double
Wtndozv [restored); Upper ' Megaron' within hail of lower; Careful Choice
of Site ; Villa well adapted to be Stimmer Pleasance of Priest-Kings.
' The House of the Chancel Screen.'
The 'South-East House' has already been referred to as presenting M.M.
in its Megaron porch column-bases of variegated stone of the earlier
M.M. Ill class.1 It may also be observed that the back wall of its pillar
crypt shows, though in a restored condition, remains of ashlar masonry con-
tained in wooden panels,2 a typical M. M. Ilia form of structure, well
illustrated in the Hall of the Double Axes.3 This house, which still held
M. M. Ill b pottery on some of its floors 4 and was distinguished by its early
naturalistic wall-paintings of flowering reeds and Madonna lilies,5 occupies
an unique position among the private houses of this site. It seems to have
been largely restored in M. M. Ill b and to have been cut finally short
within the limits of the same epoch. While, on the one hand, it presents
many structural resemblances to the houses with which we are at present
concerned, it was, on the other hand, distinguished from them by the
absence of any evidence of occupation during the early L. M. I phase.6
features
of'S.E.'
house.
1 P. of M., i, pp. 425, 426. For the S.E.
House, see, too, A. E., Knossos, Report, 1903,
p. 4 seqq.
1 See P. of M., i, p. 428, Fig. 307.
3 Ibid., p. 349, Fig. 251.
4 E. g. in the Pillar Room : ibid., p. 429,
and p. 537.
5 Ibid., pp. 537, 539, Fig. 390 and Coloured
Plate VI.
• Some of its inner spaces were tenanted by
squatters in the period of Reoccupation.
M. M. Illa features of South-East House; Neighbouring ' House of the
Chancel Screen' ; Entrance and Plan ; ' Megaron' with ' Chancel Screen'
and dais for ' Seat of Honour' ; Parallel with ' Royal Villa ' ; Earliest
Pottery on floors M.M. I/Ih; The 'Royal Villa'—its dramatic discovery ;
Plan of House; Double flights of Stairs; Fine Painted far in 'Palace
Style' on landing; Loiver Entrance System ; Small private Court for house-
holder ; The ' Megaron'—Platform and niche within Balustrade; ' Seat of
Honour'; Interspace designed as light-well; Analogies with Christian
Basilica; Pillar Crypt—Channels and Vats for liquid offerings; Timber
beams restored from indications preserved; One-columned Sanctuary above,
cotmected by special staircase; Upper flights of main stairs; Principal Entrance
probably from Upper Terrace ; Upper 'Megaron' with Balustrade and Double
Wtndozv [restored); Upper ' Megaron' within hail of lower; Careful Choice
of Site ; Villa well adapted to be Stimmer Pleasance of Priest-Kings.
' The House of the Chancel Screen.'
The 'South-East House' has already been referred to as presenting M.M.
in its Megaron porch column-bases of variegated stone of the earlier
M.M. Ill class.1 It may also be observed that the back wall of its pillar
crypt shows, though in a restored condition, remains of ashlar masonry con-
tained in wooden panels,2 a typical M. M. Ilia form of structure, well
illustrated in the Hall of the Double Axes.3 This house, which still held
M. M. Ill b pottery on some of its floors 4 and was distinguished by its early
naturalistic wall-paintings of flowering reeds and Madonna lilies,5 occupies
an unique position among the private houses of this site. It seems to have
been largely restored in M. M. Ill b and to have been cut finally short
within the limits of the same epoch. While, on the one hand, it presents
many structural resemblances to the houses with which we are at present
concerned, it was, on the other hand, distinguished from them by the
absence of any evidence of occupation during the early L. M. I phase.6
features
of'S.E.'
house.
1 P. of M., i, pp. 425, 426. For the S.E.
House, see, too, A. E., Knossos, Report, 1903,
p. 4 seqq.
1 See P. of M., i, p. 428, Fig. 307.
3 Ibid., p. 349, Fig. 251.
4 E. g. in the Pillar Room : ibid., p. 429,
and p. 537.
5 Ibid., pp. 537, 539, Fig. 390 and Coloured
Plate VI.
• Some of its inner spaces were tenanted by
squatters in the period of Reoccupation.