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renascent or derived with the original, the archaistic with
the archaic ; and he is free from the not infrequent fallacy
of thinking that all equally good art must belong to the
same period. His method is rather geological than
stylistic. It records the stratification of an extensive and
long-inhabited site,1 and it is confirmed by the inde-
pendent evidence of Phrcstos and Gournia and Palaikastro.
What profit is it, for instance, to shake one's head over the
marvellous classical masonry of the Northern Bath, when
above it, separated from it by three feet of deposit, which
could itself only have accumulated after the destruction
and complete filling up of the bath, is found the cement
pavement of a later chamber, the spiral decoration of
whose wall stucco would, if found elsewhere, be unhesi-
tatingly classed as " good Mycenaean" ?8

' Sec Plate III. For similar sections showing the various
strata and floor levels of parts of the Palace, see B.S.A. vii.
iig. 20, p. 64, ix. fig. 14, p. 27, and x. fig. 7, p. 19, and fig. 17,
p. 50.

2 B.S.A. vii. pp. On, 61.