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Knossos Excavations, 1903.
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Immediately to the left of the foot of the lowest flight of steps opens
a corridor (A 1 in plan) about a metre wide and 745 metres in length. On
the paved floor of this, which lay about 2^50 metres below the surface, were
found fragments of vases in the fine Later Palace style and painted plaster
which seems to have been derived from the walls of this and probably of
another similar corridor above. These fragments of wall-painting showed
lilies, olive sprays, and grasses, of singular fidelity and beauty.1 A group
Notes
a - Pillar,
b - Slancfs for Vases
C - Windows
(t - Plaster sland
( - Probable drain-opcnina
f - Raised sear. 0
Horns of Coijirrration H«W-—1
A - Ivory knot
k - Spiral Pedestal Lamp
11. Lily jr Olive frescoes
H—I—V
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Fig. 1. — Plan ok South-East House.
of lilies suggests one of Morris's fine wall-paper designs, but there is a
touch of nature here which goes beyond modern decorative art—the petals
of the flowers being in some cases delineated as half detached by the passing
breeze.
It is a characteristic feature of this short corridor that there were doors
at both ends of it, which, as is shown by their sockets and the position of
the reveals of the door-jambs, opened inwards. The passage led at its
1 See Report, 1902, p. 110.
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Immediately to the left of the foot of the lowest flight of steps opens
a corridor (A 1 in plan) about a metre wide and 745 metres in length. On
the paved floor of this, which lay about 2^50 metres below the surface, were
found fragments of vases in the fine Later Palace style and painted plaster
which seems to have been derived from the walls of this and probably of
another similar corridor above. These fragments of wall-painting showed
lilies, olive sprays, and grasses, of singular fidelity and beauty.1 A group
Notes
a - Pillar,
b - Slancfs for Vases
C - Windows
(t - Plaster sland
( - Probable drain-opcnina
f - Raised sear. 0
Horns of Coijirrration H«W-—1
A - Ivory knot
k - Spiral Pedestal Lamp
11. Lily jr Olive frescoes
H—I—V
10
Fig. 1. — Plan ok South-East House.
of lilies suggests one of Morris's fine wall-paper designs, but there is a
touch of nature here which goes beyond modern decorative art—the petals
of the flowers being in some cases delineated as half detached by the passing
breeze.
It is a characteristic feature of this short corridor that there were doors
at both ends of it, which, as is shown by their sockets and the position of
the reveals of the door-jambs, opened inwards. The passage led at its
1 See Report, 1902, p. 110.