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OF THE LITTLE PALACE AT KNOSSOS
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pation the interspaces between the wooden columns themselves were blocked
with clay and rubble, so that the corridor itself, the entrances of which were also
blocked, must have been reduced to a dark space.
A preliminary account of the ' Shrine of the Fetishes' and this balustraded
area has been already given by me in my Report on the Excavations of
the year 1905.1 A very interesting- feature, however, did not there receive
illustration, the impressions, namely, left by the original wooden columns on the
later plaster blocking of the balustrade on the east side. Two of these are
Fig. 77. Section of fluted column.
shown in the photograph reproduced in fig. 76. It will be seen trom this that
the fluting here is in relief, like that of the Egyptian columns imitating clustered
papyrus stems, from which this architectural form was certainly taken over.
From measurements of these flutings Mr. Doll has been able to establish the
fact that these were fifteen in number and there seems to have been no down-
ward taper of the columns. The section and restored plan is given in fig. 77.
The subsequent excavation of the southern section of the ' Little Palace'
brought to ligfht certain architectural features which in other cases have been
shown to connect themselves with Minoan cult. These are the ' Pillar Rooms',
1 Brit. Sch. Annual, xi, p. 6 seqq.
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pation the interspaces between the wooden columns themselves were blocked
with clay and rubble, so that the corridor itself, the entrances of which were also
blocked, must have been reduced to a dark space.
A preliminary account of the ' Shrine of the Fetishes' and this balustraded
area has been already given by me in my Report on the Excavations of
the year 1905.1 A very interesting- feature, however, did not there receive
illustration, the impressions, namely, left by the original wooden columns on the
later plaster blocking of the balustrade on the east side. Two of these are
Fig. 77. Section of fluted column.
shown in the photograph reproduced in fig. 76. It will be seen trom this that
the fluting here is in relief, like that of the Egyptian columns imitating clustered
papyrus stems, from which this architectural form was certainly taken over.
From measurements of these flutings Mr. Doll has been able to establish the
fact that these were fifteen in number and there seems to have been no down-
ward taper of the columns. The section and restored plan is given in fig. 77.
The subsequent excavation of the southern section of the ' Little Palace'
brought to ligfht certain architectural features which in other cases have been
shown to connect themselves with Minoan cult. These are the ' Pillar Rooms',
1 Brit. Sch. Annual, xi, p. 6 seqq.