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Knossos Excavations, 1903.
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On the other hand, between one cist and another, plain dividing slabs were
substituted for the more elaborate arrangement seen in the other series.
The cists of Class A had been originally, as in the case of those of the
Magazines, provided with a lead casing. In Class B, the whole interior was
coated with hard white plaster or cement, this cement lining being no
doubt necessitated in the case of the cists of this class by the less compact
character of their framework.
The Kaselles of type B presented indications of having remained in
use to a later date than the other series.
In the case of Class A the cists were largely occupied by a deposit
full of carbonised remains containing objects, such as the faience inlays,
which seem best to answer to the First Period of the Later Palace, and to
bear the usual mark of the violent catastrophe and conflagration which
seems to have brought it to a close. In this case the Kaselles, robbed of
such precious objects as could be extracted, were apparently left choked
with the earlier debris till the time when they were finally concealed by
the construction of the pavement above.
But the Kaselles belonging to Class B showed much less trace of
carbonised remains or of earlier relics. They contained a mere filling of
white limy earth and rubble which seems to have been heaped into them
at the time when the pavement was made. In this filling were found
scattered fragments of pottery belonging to the Latest Palace period, and
some plain bowls filled with lime. The two cists nearest the stairs at the
North end of the Long Gallery were found open and contained fragments
of still later pottery belonging to the Period of Partial Occupation.
§ 8.—The Central Palace Sanctuary.
Taken as a whole the West Central Palace region had afforded some
special indications of a religious connexion. The unique sanctity of the
Double Axe in Minoan Crete—of which the actual scene of worship
depicted on the sarcophagus of Hagia Triada has afforded a new and
astonishingly complete illustration1—had already led me to attach a religious
importance to the repetition of this sign on the two stone pillars that are
1 a preliminary notice of this is given by Dr. r. Paribeni, Lavori eseguiti &■"<: net Palazzo dt
Haghia Triada dal 23 Fcbbraio al 15 Luglio 1903 ; p. 30 seqq.
D 2
35
On the other hand, between one cist and another, plain dividing slabs were
substituted for the more elaborate arrangement seen in the other series.
The cists of Class A had been originally, as in the case of those of the
Magazines, provided with a lead casing. In Class B, the whole interior was
coated with hard white plaster or cement, this cement lining being no
doubt necessitated in the case of the cists of this class by the less compact
character of their framework.
The Kaselles of type B presented indications of having remained in
use to a later date than the other series.
In the case of Class A the cists were largely occupied by a deposit
full of carbonised remains containing objects, such as the faience inlays,
which seem best to answer to the First Period of the Later Palace, and to
bear the usual mark of the violent catastrophe and conflagration which
seems to have brought it to a close. In this case the Kaselles, robbed of
such precious objects as could be extracted, were apparently left choked
with the earlier debris till the time when they were finally concealed by
the construction of the pavement above.
But the Kaselles belonging to Class B showed much less trace of
carbonised remains or of earlier relics. They contained a mere filling of
white limy earth and rubble which seems to have been heaped into them
at the time when the pavement was made. In this filling were found
scattered fragments of pottery belonging to the Latest Palace period, and
some plain bowls filled with lime. The two cists nearest the stairs at the
North end of the Long Gallery were found open and contained fragments
of still later pottery belonging to the Period of Partial Occupation.
§ 8.—The Central Palace Sanctuary.
Taken as a whole the West Central Palace region had afforded some
special indications of a religious connexion. The unique sanctity of the
Double Axe in Minoan Crete—of which the actual scene of worship
depicted on the sarcophagus of Hagia Triada has afforded a new and
astonishingly complete illustration1—had already led me to attach a religious
importance to the repetition of this sign on the two stone pillars that are
1 a preliminary notice of this is given by Dr. r. Paribeni, Lavori eseguiti &■"<: net Palazzo dt
Haghia Triada dal 23 Fcbbraio al 15 Luglio 1903 ; p. 30 seqq.
D 2