Evans, Arthur J.: The Palace of Minos: a comparative account of the successive stages of the early Cretan civilization as illustred by the discoveries at Knossos (Band 2,2): Town houses in Knossos of the new era and restored West Palace Section (London, 1928)

§ 62. The 'South Propylaeum', Earlier and Later, and
'Cupbearer Fresco'.

Winding approach lo S. Propylaeum—its entrance system; Sub-oval
column-bases; Earlier and later Propylaea ; Spurs ofcross-walling ; Central
steps and tarazza pavement—probable Clerestory ; Green slate pavement of wings;
The inner section—second pair of column-bases; Broader plan of earlier
Propylaeum ; Comparisons with Troy, Tiryns, &c. ; Anatolian derivation,
but ' Mycenaean' type imported from Crete; Remains of sctdptui ed rosette
band from earlier portal—M. M. Ill a. dale ; Kuossia?i decorative reliefs
copied at Mycenae ; Iron-stone pavement and marbled dado of earlier Propy-
laeum ; Large built Cist beneath its floor-level; Painted plaster decoration of
interior of Cist; Filled in after M. M. Ill earthquake; A Treasury of
a Shrine—faience figures ; Wings of earlier Propylaeum railed in : Its
painted stucco decoration as ' Ladies in Blue ' ; Later Pi opylaeum narro7ver
—more rubbly walls; Painted rosette frieze; Discovery of ' Cup-bearer
Fresco'—elongated ' rhytou' type; Costume and ornament of figure; Agate
bead-seal and silver ornament in front of car ; Conventionalized upper rock
border; A second figure in front; ' Mediterratiean' type of' Cup-bearer ' ;
Overwhelming impression produced by first discovery—the ' Saitil'; Double
range of figures—eighty-eight in hall op Propylaeum ; Replica of figures re-
placed in former position in 1 cstored West wing; Frescoes a record of
religiotis processions—sacred vessels of Treasury Cist exhibited ; Foundations
of bastion supporting steps to upper Porch ; Displaced coltimu-base ; Gypsum
jamb of entrance; Conjectural loggias/ Tarazza pavement of Upper ' Long
Gallery'—limestone jambs of two upper Magazines ; ' Porter's Lodge'; Lobby
of p-rincipal, Tri-columnar Hall of West Palace Section.

winding The Southern Section of the 'Corridor of the Procession', running East

t"o sr°Pro- (see General Plans, A and C, at end of volume), approached the system of

pylaeum. entrance halls that led up to the piano nobile of the Palace. It entered this

section through an elongated open space, 9-38 metres in width, which

contained plentiful remains of its tarazza paving.1 This light-area gave

1 In the Eastern section of this light-area variously coloured slabs of a marble dado and

the explorations of 1926 brought out fragments recalling those of the West Porch. These be-

of painted stucco, showing parts of squares long to some restoration of the last Palace

of black and red, apparently imitating the period (L. M. II).