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D. G. HOGARTH
west by the fresco house excavated in 1SÜS. Through the middle of this
runs the main street line already pavtly explored. The soil immediately
above the slabs covering the conduit in this street was found hard as if
trodden, showing that the drain was laid in subsoil, not on the surface. The
süpersoil hereabouts was very deep, and the pottery yield consequently small
until a metre or two of deposit had been removed. In one room a wall-facing
of ironstone slabs was found in the Second City Stratum, anticipating the
gypsum slab facings, afterwards found at Cnossos; and a plaster floor rested
almost on the rock. The bust of a niarble idol was here unearthed on the
iioor level, where painted geometric wäre was abundant. In a curious
cupboard-like recess in the south wall of another room was much fine primitive
Melian pottery of the Second City; and at a considerably higher level (about
Fig. 12.—Kakly House in J 2 froh above.
1-80 metres under the surface), occurred fragments of one of the tyjncal 'red
and black' bird-vases. A find, interesting for the history of local techniquc,
also made in this region, was that of a Melian saucer, with foot, lying
3J- metres under the surface.
In the last days of the season a further examination was undertaken of
the cliff face to north of the east wing of the Palace, close to the point (J 1)
where the most primitive potteiy had been found in 1S9S. It was thought
that similar pottery would outcrop on the cliff cut by the sea, and this
proved to be the case. A large number of sherds, antedating the First City,
came at once tö liglit in the lowest part of the face, and it is evident
that the most primitive settlement at Phylakopi lay at this point.
Jjut no constructions, that can be identified with it, have yet been
discovered.
D. G. HOGARTH
west by the fresco house excavated in 1SÜS. Through the middle of this
runs the main street line already pavtly explored. The soil immediately
above the slabs covering the conduit in this street was found hard as if
trodden, showing that the drain was laid in subsoil, not on the surface. The
süpersoil hereabouts was very deep, and the pottery yield consequently small
until a metre or two of deposit had been removed. In one room a wall-facing
of ironstone slabs was found in the Second City Stratum, anticipating the
gypsum slab facings, afterwards found at Cnossos; and a plaster floor rested
almost on the rock. The bust of a niarble idol was here unearthed on the
iioor level, where painted geometric wäre was abundant. In a curious
cupboard-like recess in the south wall of another room was much fine primitive
Melian pottery of the Second City; and at a considerably higher level (about
Fig. 12.—Kakly House in J 2 froh above.
1-80 metres under the surface), occurred fragments of one of the tyjncal 'red
and black' bird-vases. A find, interesting for the history of local techniquc,
also made in this region, was that of a Melian saucer, with foot, lying
3J- metres under the surface.
In the last days of the season a further examination was undertaken of
the cliff face to north of the east wing of the Palace, close to the point (J 1)
where the most primitive potteiy had been found in 1S9S. It was thought
that similar pottery would outcrop on the cliff cut by the sea, and this
proved to be the case. A large number of sherds, antedating the First City,
came at once tö liglit in the lowest part of the face, and it is evident
that the most primitive settlement at Phylakopi lay at this point.
Jjut no constructions, that can be identified with it, have yet been
discovered.