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Knossos Excavations, 1903.
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a considerable disturbance of the contents of the other depository at some
period, and was probably due to plunderers at the time of what seems to
have been the first great catastrophe of the Later Palace.
The amount of gold foil found in this stratum was greater than had
PLAN
Fig. 23.—Great Stone Cists : Temple Repositories.
been yet found in any single spot in the Palace. It connected itself here,
as in the case of the Kasella of the Long Gallery, with the carbonised
remains of what seems to have been a large and very costly chest together
•with smaller caskets. From the fluting and traces of ornamental
.designs visible on some of this gold foil it was evident that it been used
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a considerable disturbance of the contents of the other depository at some
period, and was probably due to plunderers at the time of what seems to
have been the first great catastrophe of the Later Palace.
The amount of gold foil found in this stratum was greater than had
PLAN
Fig. 23.—Great Stone Cists : Temple Repositories.
been yet found in any single spot in the Palace. It connected itself here,
as in the case of the Kasella of the Long Gallery, with the carbonised
remains of what seems to have been a large and very costly chest together
•with smaller caskets. From the fluting and traces of ornamental
.designs visible on some of this gold foil it was evident that it been used