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Knossos Excavations,
great pitlios—no metre in diameter—of
the same early class as those of the Eastern
Magazines and displaying a similar knob-
bed decoration. Its rim has been deliber-
ately broken away during the levelling
process which preceded the laying down
of the later pavement above. Beside the
remaining part of this huge pithos, in the
same carbonised stratum, lay several small
vessels of somewhat rude fabric. Amongst
these was the fragment of the rim of a
large jar showing white spirals on a black
or reddish-brown ground and recalling the
typical decoration and contour of certain
vessels from the Plaster Closet1 belonging
to the penultimate period of the Palace, as
well as of others from the Repositories of
the early shrine to be described below.2 A
cup with a ' matt' brown band on buff slip
and some small crucible-like vessels with
three feet, showed close approximation to
types of the preceding Middle Minoan
Period.
Below the rough stone flooring on
which the pitlios and the other remains
rested lay the earth filling of another deep-
walled pit, probably like that on the other
side of wall B, descending about seven
metres.
The section (Y—Y on plan Fig. 14) of
the neighbouring area, drawn from East
to West, affords an instructive compari-
son with that shown in Fig. 13 above.
The stratification is essentially the same,
except that there is here no floor-level
1Knossos, Report, 1902, p. 87 seqq.
- See p. '49 segf.iand Fig. 26.
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great pitlios—no metre in diameter—of
the same early class as those of the Eastern
Magazines and displaying a similar knob-
bed decoration. Its rim has been deliber-
ately broken away during the levelling
process which preceded the laying down
of the later pavement above. Beside the
remaining part of this huge pithos, in the
same carbonised stratum, lay several small
vessels of somewhat rude fabric. Amongst
these was the fragment of the rim of a
large jar showing white spirals on a black
or reddish-brown ground and recalling the
typical decoration and contour of certain
vessels from the Plaster Closet1 belonging
to the penultimate period of the Palace, as
well as of others from the Repositories of
the early shrine to be described below.2 A
cup with a ' matt' brown band on buff slip
and some small crucible-like vessels with
three feet, showed close approximation to
types of the preceding Middle Minoan
Period.
Below the rough stone flooring on
which the pitlios and the other remains
rested lay the earth filling of another deep-
walled pit, probably like that on the other
side of wall B, descending about seven
metres.
The section (Y—Y on plan Fig. 14) of
the neighbouring area, drawn from East
to West, affords an instructive compari-
son with that shown in Fig. 13 above.
The stratification is essentially the same,
except that there is here no floor-level
1Knossos, Report, 1902, p. 87 seqq.
- See p. '49 segf.iand Fig. 26.
SsS