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building, it stands in most intimate relation with it, and its main entrance
was evidently from a line of terrace which extends Northwards to the
Portico of the Hall of ihe Double Axes.
To this terrace level, indeed, it stands in the same relation as the
' Domestic Quarter' of the Palace, with its stately Halls of the Colonnades
and of the Double Axes, to the Central Court. As there the quadruple
staircase from the Court above afforded the main entrance to the lower as
well as the upper floors, so in this case, too, the stairway down from the
upper terrace was evidently the chief means of entering the lower rooms.
Like the Domestic Quarter, too, lower rooms of this South-East House are
constructed in a cutting in the side of the slope, partly at the expense of
earlier human strata, partly hewn out of the soft virgin rock. Thus
immediately to the North of these chambers, which, as will be seen, belong
to the Later Palace Period, are Magazines at a slightly higher level
belonging to the Early Minoan Age.
The remarkable ' Royal Villa ' excavated this season to the North-East
of the Palace and described below 1 displays identical features. There too
the main entrance was by a flight of stairs descending from an upper
terrace, and there too the lower rooms were built into a cutting in the side
of the hill.
The South-East House, like the Villa to be described below, presents
an excellent example of what may be called the Miniature Palace Style
of building (see plan, Fig. i). All the familiar features, such as the stairs,
with their great angle blocks, the corridors, the gypsum lining slabs, the
door jambs with their reveals, the porticoes, and the pillar rooms are
repeated on a smaller scale. Nor in the artistic character of the contents
is there any falling off. In the case of the South-East House the relics
found evince the highest level of taste on the part of the owner.
Of the stairs the whole lower flight consisting of nine gypsum steps 2
was preserved, but of the upper flight only parts of two, adjoining the
square block at the first landing. The upper stair-block which, like the
other, has the usual four dowel holes for wooden construction, was found
slightly displaced. About the same level were also found door jambs
belonging to the upper storey of the house. It seems probable that the
middle landing of the staircase was lit by a window in its North wall.
1 § 20, p. 130 seqq.
- I '39 m. wide, 038 deep with a tread of CV13.
A. J. Evans
building, it stands in most intimate relation with it, and its main entrance
was evidently from a line of terrace which extends Northwards to the
Portico of the Hall of ihe Double Axes.
To this terrace level, indeed, it stands in the same relation as the
' Domestic Quarter' of the Palace, with its stately Halls of the Colonnades
and of the Double Axes, to the Central Court. As there the quadruple
staircase from the Court above afforded the main entrance to the lower as
well as the upper floors, so in this case, too, the stairway down from the
upper terrace was evidently the chief means of entering the lower rooms.
Like the Domestic Quarter, too, lower rooms of this South-East House are
constructed in a cutting in the side of the slope, partly at the expense of
earlier human strata, partly hewn out of the soft virgin rock. Thus
immediately to the North of these chambers, which, as will be seen, belong
to the Later Palace Period, are Magazines at a slightly higher level
belonging to the Early Minoan Age.
The remarkable ' Royal Villa ' excavated this season to the North-East
of the Palace and described below 1 displays identical features. There too
the main entrance was by a flight of stairs descending from an upper
terrace, and there too the lower rooms were built into a cutting in the side
of the hill.
The South-East House, like the Villa to be described below, presents
an excellent example of what may be called the Miniature Palace Style
of building (see plan, Fig. i). All the familiar features, such as the stairs,
with their great angle blocks, the corridors, the gypsum lining slabs, the
door jambs with their reveals, the porticoes, and the pillar rooms are
repeated on a smaller scale. Nor in the artistic character of the contents
is there any falling off. In the case of the South-East House the relics
found evince the highest level of taste on the part of the owner.
Of the stairs the whole lower flight consisting of nine gypsum steps 2
was preserved, but of the upper flight only parts of two, adjoining the
square block at the first landing. The upper stair-block which, like the
other, has the usual four dowel holes for wooden construction, was found
slightly displaced. About the same level were also found door jambs
belonging to the upper storey of the house. It seems probable that the
middle landing of the staircase was lit by a window in its North wall.
1 § 20, p. 130 seqq.
- I '39 m. wide, 038 deep with a tread of CV13.