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THE PALACE OF MINOS, ETC.
diately underlying the gypsum slabs of the M. M. Ill Magazine in its final
form. We have here, therefore, the record of three successive floors between
the close of M. M. 11 and that of M. M. 111 (see Section, Fig. 233). A further
interesting circumstance was the discovery on the earlier ' mosaiko ' floor of
a raised plaster circle 1-13 metre in diameter, adapted to hold a jar with a base
of about 94 cm. (Fig. 234).1 It follows that the use of this space as a
Magazine for oil storage goes back to a distinctly earlier elate, when the floor
level was lower. The large pithos base is in keeping with the M. M. II
tradition. The Magazine itself was somewhat narrowed at a date slightly
Fig. 235. View of Enclave containing Magazine of 'Medallion' Fithoi and the Corridor
the Bays ('The Royal Magazines'). To left is Middle E. W. Corridor.
anterior to the storage of the 'Medallion' pithoi by the rebuilding of its
E. wall on a broader scale.
Magazine In the adjoining- Corridor of the Ba\s (Fig. 236) were found remarkable
of 'Medal- jo - \ ^> /
lion' hoards of contemporary vessels of culinary and probably also of ritual usage2,
an'dCor and this with the contiguous Magazine, built on an upper terrace-level of the
ridor of East Slope, together formed an isolated enclave in connexion with the
adjoining first floor of the ' Domestic Quarter \
Plers There can be no doubt that the primary function of the massive piers
supports 1 m J 1
of Great of masonry that divided the Corridor into separate bays for storage was to
aboveHaI act as supports for the pillars of what seems to have been the great East
Hall of the Palace, which, in its M. M. Ill shape, was somewhat below the
1 The flat border of the plaster circle was 9-5 cm. in diameter.
2 See below, p. 565 and Fig. 412.
THE PALACE OF MINOS, ETC.
diately underlying the gypsum slabs of the M. M. Ill Magazine in its final
form. We have here, therefore, the record of three successive floors between
the close of M. M. 11 and that of M. M. 111 (see Section, Fig. 233). A further
interesting circumstance was the discovery on the earlier ' mosaiko ' floor of
a raised plaster circle 1-13 metre in diameter, adapted to hold a jar with a base
of about 94 cm. (Fig. 234).1 It follows that the use of this space as a
Magazine for oil storage goes back to a distinctly earlier elate, when the floor
level was lower. The large pithos base is in keeping with the M. M. II
tradition. The Magazine itself was somewhat narrowed at a date slightly
Fig. 235. View of Enclave containing Magazine of 'Medallion' Fithoi and the Corridor
the Bays ('The Royal Magazines'). To left is Middle E. W. Corridor.
anterior to the storage of the 'Medallion' pithoi by the rebuilding of its
E. wall on a broader scale.
Magazine In the adjoining- Corridor of the Ba\s (Fig. 236) were found remarkable
of 'Medal- jo - \ ^> /
lion' hoards of contemporary vessels of culinary and probably also of ritual usage2,
an'dCor and this with the contiguous Magazine, built on an upper terrace-level of the
ridor of East Slope, together formed an isolated enclave in connexion with the
adjoining first floor of the ' Domestic Quarter \
Plers There can be no doubt that the primary function of the massive piers
supports 1 m J 1
of Great of masonry that divided the Corridor into separate bays for storage was to
aboveHaI act as supports for the pillars of what seems to have been the great East
Hall of the Palace, which, in its M. M. Ill shape, was somewhat below the
1 The flat border of the plaster circle was 9-5 cm. in diameter.
2 See below, p. 565 and Fig. 412.