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level of the Central Court. As will be more fully demonstrated below, the
general plan of this is very clearly suggested by the existing substructures
in this area. That an important upper EI all was in existence here before the
close of the M. M. Ill Period results from a variety of evidence, and it will be
shown that the stone drain-heads found on the same terrace-level must be
brought into connexion with the drainage of its roofs and light-court. In
relation to this may be also placed the early column bases, the Spiral Fresco,
and the painted stucco low-reliefs found, as we shall see, in the M. M. Ill

S%%« ROYAL MAGAZINES

[CORR-OF.jBAYS.j&MAG-iOF MEDj,PITHOl]

Fig. 236. Plan of 'Royal Magazines' showing Enclave off Landing of Grand
Staircase. (The Rectangle shows where Pavement was raised.)

stratum of the Loom-Weight Area. Later on, at the beginning of the
L. M. I Period, it appears to have been succeeded by another Hall on a higher
level but following much the same lines. To this seem to have belonged
the magnificent high-reliefs of painted stucco representing agonistic scenes.

' The Magazine of the Medallion Pithoi', however, together with the The
Corridor of the Bays, had no connexion with this upper Hall. They constitute j^Qyai
an enclave, built, as already said, off the first floor of the Domestic Quarter zincs',
and designed for its convenience. From the stately character of the store
jars themselves, some of them stamped with official seals, the group of
structures may be fitly described as par excellence 'the Royal Magazines'.

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