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position not only the gypsum jambs of its doorways and other architectural
features, but much of the pavement. In its S.W. corner was another small
latrine flushed by the roof-waters which were here conveyed to the main
drain below by means of a stone shaft. A small closet seems to have been
connected with the shaft immediately E. of this.

Above the Hall of the Double Axes, again, were brought out the remains

Fig. 244. View of Upper Floors in S.W. Corner of Domestic Quarter, including Room
of Stone Bench. (The opening in pavement shows position of drain shaft.)

of an Upper Hall of the same form, only slightly sunken beneath its original
position. The containing walls with two lateral doorways are here visible,
answering to those below, as well as the door-jambs between its first and
second sections and parts of the pavement. Two jambs even remained in
situ of the Southern line of the second section. In a later Section, dealing
with the First Late Minoan Period, reasons will be given for believing that
the remains of a fine painted stucco frieze, representing Minoan shields

Upper
Hall of
Double
Axes.