The Palace of Knossos: Provisional Report for the Year 1903 (in: The Annual of the British School at Athens, 9.1902/1903, S. 1-153) (London, 1903)

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further end to a room (B) with remains of pavement, the East wall of
which was lost owing to the downward slope of the hill. Here at D was
found a curious object of painted plaster having six legs and an oval
aperture surrounded by a rim.1 This stand or table, which has a ritual
aspect, shows a coloured decoration of cream-white rosettes on a dark red
ground. In style it seems to represent a surviving tradition of the Middle

Socketed

Cave. Pillar. Base. Niche in Wall

Terracotta Stand. Supposed Window.

Fig. 2.—1'illar Room and Exterior South Wall ; South-East House.

Minoan ceramic decoration, and its colouring recalls that of the small terra-
cotta Sanctuary.'2

A second doorway in the West wall of the room with the plaster stand,
leads to a nearly square chamber, the distinguishing feature of which is a

1 It is shown out of its place on the top of the wall of I) i, in the view given in Fig. 2.
- Report, 1902, p. 28, seqq.