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Knossos Excavations, 1903.
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floors of the small chambers about the Pillar Rooms to the same searching
examination as those of the Long Gallery. Might there not here too lie
concealed beneath the pavements earlier repositories belonging to the
Palace Shrine ?
Immediately behind the rectangular recess where had come to light
the sealings representing the lion-guarded Goddess and her pillar-shrine is
a small chamber which in the state in which it was first opened out
showed every characteristic of the latest period of the Palace. Its walls
Fig. 19.—Superficial Cists in Pavement ok Chamber near East Piliar Room.
were covered with stucco painted white with red bands, forming a kind of
frieze and dado in the same manner as the walls of the West Magazines
and Long Gallery. From the occurrence of two shallow superficial cists
or stone vats in its pavement, which were lidless and open (see Fig. 19),
and the remains of some clay pitlwi of the usual late character, it seemed
to have been used during the concluding period of the building for the
storage of oil.
Noticing a slight depression in the pavement in the East section of the
room I had some slabs raised, and it was then discovered that instead of
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floors of the small chambers about the Pillar Rooms to the same searching
examination as those of the Long Gallery. Might there not here too lie
concealed beneath the pavements earlier repositories belonging to the
Palace Shrine ?
Immediately behind the rectangular recess where had come to light
the sealings representing the lion-guarded Goddess and her pillar-shrine is
a small chamber which in the state in which it was first opened out
showed every characteristic of the latest period of the Palace. Its walls
Fig. 19.—Superficial Cists in Pavement ok Chamber near East Piliar Room.
were covered with stucco painted white with red bands, forming a kind of
frieze and dado in the same manner as the walls of the West Magazines
and Long Gallery. From the occurrence of two shallow superficial cists
or stone vats in its pavement, which were lidless and open (see Fig. 19),
and the remains of some clay pitlwi of the usual late character, it seemed
to have been used during the concluding period of the building for the
storage of oil.
Noticing a slight depression in the pavement in the East section of the
room I had some slabs raised, and it was then discovered that instead of