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THE PALACE OF MINOS, ETC.
N.E.
Room.
Submer-
gence of
M. M. II
Maga-
zines.
its opening, in a line with the cross-wall, was a stone-work pier. The
section of the Corridor beyond this (blocked and converted into a Magazine
before the close of this Period—M. M. Ill 6) led to a fine oblong chamber—
the North-East Room—-opening byacentral doorway on the little Court named
from the Stone Spout projecting from its Western wall. Both the North-East
chamber and the Court itself represented an entire remodelling in M. M. Ill a
of an area occupied in the M. M. II Period by an extensive group of
Magazines containing;-the huge Knobbed Pithoi described above.1 A smaller
r
LINE OF M M.III.B.PARTITION
WALL
OLD THRESHOLD CUT SHORT
RUBBLE FILLING;
MM II PLASTER FLOOR
FlG.' 262
BASE. OF M.M.I I.PITHOS
N.E.
Room.
Front View of N. Wall of N.E. Room showing Altered Door
Opening and Underlying M. M. II Floor.
store jar of contemporary fabric was in fact found on an earlier floor,
90 centimetres below the later floor of the North-East Room, and the base of
one of the great M. M. II pithoi came to light in situ, partly beneath the
foundations of its North wall (Fig. 202).2
This North-East Room was evidently a feature of some architectural
importance in the early part of the present Period. Its North wall, formed
of exceptionally fine, closely compacted limestone blocks, was symmetrically
divided by a doorway, opening on the little Court beyond, on either side of
which was, probably, a window. In the later part of this Period, when the
Chamber itself was subdivided, the door opening was narrowed, being partly
blocked by the partition wall, and the old threshold seems to have been
raised and shortened (see Elevation, Fig. 262). This N. wall itself, as
will be here seen, was laid on a rubble filling overlying a M. M. II
1 See p. 231 seqq. and Fig. 175.
" Excavations of 1913.
THE PALACE OF MINOS, ETC.
N.E.
Room.
Submer-
gence of
M. M. II
Maga-
zines.
its opening, in a line with the cross-wall, was a stone-work pier. The
section of the Corridor beyond this (blocked and converted into a Magazine
before the close of this Period—M. M. Ill 6) led to a fine oblong chamber—
the North-East Room—-opening byacentral doorway on the little Court named
from the Stone Spout projecting from its Western wall. Both the North-East
chamber and the Court itself represented an entire remodelling in M. M. Ill a
of an area occupied in the M. M. II Period by an extensive group of
Magazines containing;-the huge Knobbed Pithoi described above.1 A smaller
r
LINE OF M M.III.B.PARTITION
WALL
OLD THRESHOLD CUT SHORT
RUBBLE FILLING;
MM II PLASTER FLOOR
FlG.' 262
BASE. OF M.M.I I.PITHOS
N.E.
Room.
Front View of N. Wall of N.E. Room showing Altered Door
Opening and Underlying M. M. II Floor.
store jar of contemporary fabric was in fact found on an earlier floor,
90 centimetres below the later floor of the North-East Room, and the base of
one of the great M. M. II pithoi came to light in situ, partly beneath the
foundations of its North wall (Fig. 202).2
This North-East Room was evidently a feature of some architectural
importance in the early part of the present Period. Its North wall, formed
of exceptionally fine, closely compacted limestone blocks, was symmetrically
divided by a doorway, opening on the little Court beyond, on either side of
which was, probably, a window. In the later part of this Period, when the
Chamber itself was subdivided, the door opening was narrowed, being partly
blocked by the partition wall, and the old threshold seems to have been
raised and shortened (see Elevation, Fig. 262). This N. wall itself, as
will be here seen, was laid on a rubble filling overlying a M. M. II
1 See p. 231 seqq. and Fig. 175.
" Excavations of 1913.