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.

' Kalde- paved Turkish roads, this class of pavement became known to the Cretan
Paving workmen as ' kalderim '. It occurred below the M. M. 111 level at many points
throughout the East Quarter, and M. M. II store jars were found resting
upon it in the East Magazines and the 'Room of the Knobbed Pithos\

Fig. 155. Remains of 'Mosaiko' Pavement below later Gypsum Slabbing.

Queen's Megaron, Knossos.

Traces at times were found of the painted plaster that filled the interstices.

The result of test excavations made in 1913 at various points in the
Queen's Megaron and Bath Room and in the adjoining light-wells was
to show that at about thirty-five centimetres beneath the later floor level1
there had existed, throughout a large part of that area, a paved ' kalderim'
of this class. Intermediate, moreover, between this and the gypsum slabbing

1 In the ' Bath Room ' the depth was somewhat greater, c. 50 cm.