THE PALACE OF MINOS, ETC.
Early
Palace
types of
porch.
The imitation blocks of variegated marbles seen below such shafts on
the same wall-paintings suggest, moreover, that the walls themselves were
at one time partly coated with plaques of decorative materials.
Porches and porticoes are among the salient features of the early Middle
Minoan Palaces. The West Porch of Phaestos and another similar porch
on a lower terrace S.W. of the Palace,1 supply the typical plan and Un-
it 50 I
\0 %
Fig. 158. West Porch of Knossos
[O = Mouth of jar in
sunken pari of
psueme.nL of porch.]
Fig. 159. West Porch, Phaestos.
Fig. 160. South-West
Porch (on lower level),
Phaestos.
questionably belong to the earliest epoch of that Palace (see Figs. 159, 160).
W. Porch The West Porch of Knossos, which is the best existing example of this
class of structure on that Site, seems to owe its present form to the great
Restoration of M. M. III. The comparison of its ground-plan with those
of the two early Phaestian porches2 given in Figs. 159, 160 shows,
however, that the arrangement answers to that of the Early Palace system.
at Knos
sos com-
pared
with
Phaes-
tian Ex-
amples.
1 Pernier, Rendicontidei Lincei, 1907, p. 261 lodges. Fig. 160 is the- porch lower down the
and Fig. a. steep, to the South-West of the Palace, more
2 Fig. 159 shows the West Porch at Phaestos, recently discovered by Dr. Pernier {Rendiconti,
opening on the W. Court, as fully excavated &c, 1907. p. 261 and Fig. a; and cf. Noack,
(details from notes made by me in 1913). In Ovalhaus und Palast in Creta, pp. 6, 7).
this case there seem to have been two small
Early
Palace
types of
porch.
The imitation blocks of variegated marbles seen below such shafts on
the same wall-paintings suggest, moreover, that the walls themselves were
at one time partly coated with plaques of decorative materials.
Porches and porticoes are among the salient features of the early Middle
Minoan Palaces. The West Porch of Phaestos and another similar porch
on a lower terrace S.W. of the Palace,1 supply the typical plan and Un-
it 50 I
\0 %
Fig. 158. West Porch of Knossos
[O = Mouth of jar in
sunken pari of
psueme.nL of porch.]
Fig. 159. West Porch, Phaestos.
Fig. 160. South-West
Porch (on lower level),
Phaestos.
questionably belong to the earliest epoch of that Palace (see Figs. 159, 160).
W. Porch The West Porch of Knossos, which is the best existing example of this
class of structure on that Site, seems to owe its present form to the great
Restoration of M. M. III. The comparison of its ground-plan with those
of the two early Phaestian porches2 given in Figs. 159, 160 shows,
however, that the arrangement answers to that of the Early Palace system.
at Knos
sos com-
pared
with
Phaes-
tian Ex-
amples.
1 Pernier, Rendicontidei Lincei, 1907, p. 261 lodges. Fig. 160 is the- porch lower down the
and Fig. a. steep, to the South-West of the Palace, more
2 Fig. 159 shows the West Porch at Phaestos, recently discovered by Dr. Pernier {Rendiconti,
opening on the W. Court, as fully excavated &c, 1907. p. 261 and Fig. a; and cf. Noack,
(details from notes made by me in 1913). In Ovalhaus und Palast in Creta, pp. 6, 7).
this case there seem to have been two small