Evans, Arthur J.: The Palace of Minos: a comparative account of the successive stages of the early Cretan civilization as illustred by the discoveries at Knossos (Band 1): The Neolithic and Early and Middle Minoan Ages (London, 1921)

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THE PALACE OF MINOS, ETC.

Later Re-
modelling
of Palace
Interior

a

this upward slope formed part of the original arrangement, it might be
taken as evidence that the Minoan engineers, at the close of the Third Mil-
lennium B.C., made a practical application of the fact that water finds its
own level. From the position, however, in which this section of piping was
found, above the filling of the Hypogaeum, the evidence falls short of certainty.

That the inner arrangements of the Palace area were radically modified
at some time between the date of the M. M. 1 structures and
mature phase of M. M. II is well
shown by the evidence forthcoming
from the original Keep. The walled
pits were here filled up, and new walls
with foundations in some cases going
very deep down were drawn across
them, in places at right angles to the
original foundations, and prolonged
beyond their boundaries. At a level a
little below that of the Central Court
new floors were laid down, and in the
case of one of these, belonging to a
small room to the West of this area,
a chronological terminus ad quem is
obtainable. On this floor, composed of
somewhat rough stones, was the base
of a knobbed pithos presenting a late
example of a class well represented
in the Early Magazines of the East
Slope. With this were cups and other

ceramic

fragments

belonoino- to a

Fig

mature phase of M. M. II (see Section,
p. 235, Fig. 177 below).

It would therefore appear that
the structures to which this floor belonged date from the early part of

103. Clay Water Pipes : Near
Area of Stone Drain-head.

derneath the S. Porch. As it here passes over
the earth filling of the Hypogaeum the possi-
bility of a slight sinking must be kept in view.
But, if that was the case, the whole sank equally,
for the clay cement of the joints was not broken.
It will be seen that the course of the pipe is
somewhat curved. Mr. Doll observes that the
pipes of the Eastern area are in every way

smaller than the others. ' Their faucets have lips
• 02 cm. thick, and their spigots, instead of taper-
ing with the general taper of the pipes, were
wave-surfaced outside for the grip of the cement
or clay.' Some, at any rate, of those on the
South Slope have handles, which are wanting
in the case of the others.