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THE PALACE OF MINOS, ETC.
Knobbed base of a wall of good masonry belonging to a hall of the early part of the
Knossos*: Third Middle Minoan Period. Moreover, on the same 'kalderim' pave-
M. M. II. ment, of the Early Palace
class, on which the pithoi
stood, were found fragments
of polychrome vases of the
mature M. M. II style. So,
too, in the area of the Early
Keep, the lower part of a
similar store jar was found
in situ, the upper part of
which, as became apparent
in the course of the recent
re-investigation of this area,
had been cut off by a
M.M.III floor1 (see Section,
Fig. 177).
In this case again the
pithos, which was ' bossed '
rather than knobbed, rested
on a typical 'kalderim' pave-
ment, laid on the top of
the outer foundation wall of
the early Keep, belonging,
as has been shown, to the
early part of the M. M. I
Period. With the Store jar
was found a typical M. M. II
cup showing a white band
on the black glazed ground (see Fig. 177). This pithos, like most of its
class, was decorated with the trickle ornament and its low bosses were
Fig. 17(5.
Painted Pithos, Phaestos.
(Height i-:68 m.)
M.M. IT.
1 The section originally given, Knossos, bouring areas) that the pavement covered the
Report, 1903 (B.S.A., ix), p. 26, Fig. 13, was filling of another walled pit. On the other
vitiated by two radical misconceptions. A test hand, while the clay and plaster pavement of
made below the ' kalderim ' pavement on which the floor above was well preserved near the
the base of the knobbed pithos rested struck North wall of the chamber, it was not realized
the interstice between the foundation wall of that the greater part of its central area had
the Keep and the face of the cutting into the been broken in, and M. M. Ill pottery had thus
Neolithic. This conveyed the wrong impres- in places intruded into the interspace on which
sion (suggested by the analogy of the neigh- the pithos stood. This was, therefore, also
THE PALACE OF MINOS, ETC.
Knobbed base of a wall of good masonry belonging to a hall of the early part of the
Knossos*: Third Middle Minoan Period. Moreover, on the same 'kalderim' pave-
M. M. II. ment, of the Early Palace
class, on which the pithoi
stood, were found fragments
of polychrome vases of the
mature M. M. II style. So,
too, in the area of the Early
Keep, the lower part of a
similar store jar was found
in situ, the upper part of
which, as became apparent
in the course of the recent
re-investigation of this area,
had been cut off by a
M.M.III floor1 (see Section,
Fig. 177).
In this case again the
pithos, which was ' bossed '
rather than knobbed, rested
on a typical 'kalderim' pave-
ment, laid on the top of
the outer foundation wall of
the early Keep, belonging,
as has been shown, to the
early part of the M. M. I
Period. With the Store jar
was found a typical M. M. II
cup showing a white band
on the black glazed ground (see Fig. 177). This pithos, like most of its
class, was decorated with the trickle ornament and its low bosses were
Fig. 17(5.
Painted Pithos, Phaestos.
(Height i-:68 m.)
M.M. IT.
1 The section originally given, Knossos, bouring areas) that the pavement covered the
Report, 1903 (B.S.A., ix), p. 26, Fig. 13, was filling of another walled pit. On the other
vitiated by two radical misconceptions. A test hand, while the clay and plaster pavement of
made below the ' kalderim ' pavement on which the floor above was well preserved near the
the base of the knobbed pithos rested struck North wall of the chamber, it was not realized
the interstice between the foundation wall of that the greater part of its central area had
the Keep and the face of the cutting into the been broken in, and M. M. Ill pottery had thus
Neolithic. This conveyed the wrong impres- in places intruded into the interspace on which
sion (suggested by the analogy of the neigh- the pithos stood. This was, therefore, also