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THE PALACE OF MINOS, ETC.

M. M. III. So, too, in the N.E. Hall and its dependencies, submerged at
the end of the Middle Minoan Age, and on the floors of which M. M. Ill b
vessels were found in situ, the system of low limestone column bases and
gypsum dadoes was already adopted. If, therefore, a good deal of the
structural core of the Domestic Quarter must be referred to the earlier
phase of M. M. Ill, we must at the same time recognize that there was a

Fig. 253 a. Window N. of \V. Light-Area of Hall of Double Axes, as found.

wholesale re-modelling towards the close of this Period. Its outward archi-
tectural features in fact better ranee themselves with the Late Minoan
style.

Windows The evidences of the massive framework illustrated above were no-

Domestic where more conspicuous than in the case of the window openings. The
Quarter. great beams and posts of these were boldly designed to support tons of
superincumbent masonry, and the carbonization of the wooden material had
resulted in a serious fall of the overlying blocks, which gave occasion for much
difficult work of reconstitution. In Fig. 253 a is seen the window of the
Lower East-West Corridor, looking on the W. Lioht-Area of the Hall of the