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)

Knossos Excavations, 1903.

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usage by a worshipper as represented on a gem found in the Idaean Cave,1
as well as the association of clay models of the same conch-shell with the
remains of the little terracotta Sanctuary found in an early basement on the
East side of the Palace.2

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Fig. 18.—Plan of West Central Section of Palace with Altar-Bases and

Sanctuary.

Immediately South of the Room of the Column Bases which forms the
Antechamber to the Pillar Rooms is a rectangular recess facing the Central
Court. In this recess was discovered in 1901 a series of seal impressions
representing an armed Goddess on a rocky height guarded by lions with a
worshipper in front of her and a pillar shrine behind, recalling in a somewhat

1 Myc. Tree and Pillar Cult, p. 44 Fig. 25. - Report, &r., 1902, p. 32.