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PREFACE
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architectural plans of Mr. Theodore Fyfe and Mr. Christian Doll have been
the result of years of expert labour. On Mr. Doll mainly devolved the
Atlantean task of raising and re-supporting the sunken elements of the
upper stories; and his practical experience of the anatomy of the building
has been of service at every turn. Many drawings for this work have been
gradually executed by competent artists like Monsieur E. Gillieron and
his son, Mr. Halvor Bagge, and Mr. E. J. Lambert.1
It will be seen that this process of reconstitution and restoration, carried
out after the publication of the provisional Annual Reports, has given
many of the most important finds a wholly new value, and a summary illus-
tration of these fresh results will be found in the present work. Among the
hitherto unpublished specimens of Knossian antiquities here represented,—in
addition to frescoes and coloured reliefs,—are a whole series of ceramic and
other relics, and plans, sections, and details bearing on the successive
Minoan phases.
For an account of the actual course of the principal campaigns of
excavation in the Palace areaitself,—which, as already explained, had to follow
more or less experimental lines,—and also for many minor details, readers may
be referred to the above Reports published in the Annual of the British School
at Athens from 1900 to 1905 inclusive. The results of the supplementary
researches made on this site in the succeeding years, and notably in 1913,
have, however, only to a partial extent seen the light, and that in a very
abbreviated form. A fuller description of the 1 Little Palace ' to the West, with
a revised Plan, will be found in Vol. II of the present work, and, in addition
to the adjacent houses such as the ' Royal Villa', the very important 'South
House' will be for the first time described. A summary account ot the
neighbouring cemeteries will be also given in a later Section and especially of
the Royal Tomb of Isopata and of the important tomb of the 'Double Axes '
more detailed descriptions of which have been already published by me in
Archaeologiar The object of the present work, as already stated, is, while
correcting as far as possible erroneous impressions contained in the original
Reports, not only to complete the actual materials, but to co-ordinate and
systematize them in such a way as to present the discoveries at Knossos as
1 Coloured Plates in a fuller form will be issued in a separate Atlas.
2 See Archaeologia, lix (1906), 'The Prehistoric Tombs of Knossos' : I. The Cemetery of
Zafer Papoura ; II. The Royal Tomb of Isopata : Ixy (1914), I. The Tomb of the Double Axes
and associated group at Knossos.
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architectural plans of Mr. Theodore Fyfe and Mr. Christian Doll have been
the result of years of expert labour. On Mr. Doll mainly devolved the
Atlantean task of raising and re-supporting the sunken elements of the
upper stories; and his practical experience of the anatomy of the building
has been of service at every turn. Many drawings for this work have been
gradually executed by competent artists like Monsieur E. Gillieron and
his son, Mr. Halvor Bagge, and Mr. E. J. Lambert.1
It will be seen that this process of reconstitution and restoration, carried
out after the publication of the provisional Annual Reports, has given
many of the most important finds a wholly new value, and a summary illus-
tration of these fresh results will be found in the present work. Among the
hitherto unpublished specimens of Knossian antiquities here represented,—in
addition to frescoes and coloured reliefs,—are a whole series of ceramic and
other relics, and plans, sections, and details bearing on the successive
Minoan phases.
For an account of the actual course of the principal campaigns of
excavation in the Palace areaitself,—which, as already explained, had to follow
more or less experimental lines,—and also for many minor details, readers may
be referred to the above Reports published in the Annual of the British School
at Athens from 1900 to 1905 inclusive. The results of the supplementary
researches made on this site in the succeeding years, and notably in 1913,
have, however, only to a partial extent seen the light, and that in a very
abbreviated form. A fuller description of the 1 Little Palace ' to the West, with
a revised Plan, will be found in Vol. II of the present work, and, in addition
to the adjacent houses such as the ' Royal Villa', the very important 'South
House' will be for the first time described. A summary account ot the
neighbouring cemeteries will be also given in a later Section and especially of
the Royal Tomb of Isopata and of the important tomb of the 'Double Axes '
more detailed descriptions of which have been already published by me in
Archaeologiar The object of the present work, as already stated, is, while
correcting as far as possible erroneous impressions contained in the original
Reports, not only to complete the actual materials, but to co-ordinate and
systematize them in such a way as to present the discoveries at Knossos as
1 Coloured Plates in a fuller form will be issued in a separate Atlas.
2 See Archaeologia, lix (1906), 'The Prehistoric Tombs of Knossos' : I. The Cemetery of
Zafer Papoura ; II. The Royal Tomb of Isopata : Ixy (1914), I. The Tomb of the Double Axes
and associated group at Knossos.