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)

M. M. II : ROYAL POTTERY STORES (CERAMIC PHASE a) 235

surrounded with impressed circles—direct forerunners of the ' medallions ' of
the M. M. Ill class.

Surface
level.

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Idle Minoan floor
at th/s /eve/ In
adlo/nin^ ares

Stucco and c/ay
cement floor
M.M.l 11 broken through

M.M II Stratum with
knobbed P/thos
res fine/ on paved
floor <and typical
cup.

[The central part of
this area had been
d/sfurbed through
break/no in of

Mrn in floor

M.M. IIpavement of.
ego tar.
'erlm "1

la roe Irregular slabs
yrXaider/)

foundation wall of
early keep
M. M. /
go/no down 7metres

J Ar \ \

Fig. 177. M. M. II Floor with Base of Knobbed Pithos and M.M. Ill Floor

superposed (Area of Keep, Knossos).

The jars found in the Early Magazines beneath the light court^of
the Propylaeum at Phaestos of which a specimen is shown in Fig. 176,

ascribed to the M. M. Ill Period. My supple- room) with M. M. Ill vases in situ upon it.

mentary researches of 1913, which led here to Below this, moreover, beside the pithos, the

the discovery of the containing foundation wall typical M.M. II cup, mentioned above, was

of the Keep, also brought to light a part of the found,
upper floor (near the South-East corner of the

Great
Poly-
chrome
Store-
jars at
Phaestos.