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78 THE PALACE OF MINOS, ETC.
these wall paintings in the flat were themselves the later outgrowth of
painted reliefs of the preceding Palace stage.
Fra§" It looks as if these remains had originally fallen on to a somewhat
ments , . & J
fallen higher level and had thence been clumped into the basement space by the
Upper M.M. 111 ^ workmen to whom was due the new plaster floor that covered
Hall. it in and on which the tripod pots rested. An indication of this is supplied
by the fact that a fragment of the leg of one of the bulls and pieces of
the red-faced stucco and of the Spiral Fresco itself were found, at a higher level,
at the East end of the cement-paved Corridor defined in the Plan, Fig. 278
below. The occurrence here of fragments of painted stucco decoration be-
longing to a considerable chamber is itself only compatible with the conclusion
that they had fallen from a Hall above. In other words, the whole group
of remains with which we are concerned, including the Spiral Fresco and
the fragments of painted reliefs depicting bull-grappling scenes, together with
the column bases, must have belonged to an Upper Hall, the pavement of
which would have been approximately on a level with the fourth landing of
the Grand Staircase and of the Uppermost E.-W. Corridor. This level is
slightly below that of the Central Court.
It seems further probable that the fragments of painted spiraliform bands
of contemporary fabric embedded in the corresponding M.M. Ill stratum
beneath the pavement of the Magazine of the ' Medallion' Pithoi had found
its way there, at the time of the same catastrophe, from an anterior section
of the same M. M. Ill East Hall—from a portico, that is, facing the Central
Court.
TheStone There remains a still more cogent piece of evidence that an important
heads Palace Hall existed at that level in this Period. In the walled interspace
mistaken between the ' Royal Magazines' and what seems to have been another small
for Olive .
Presses, store-room immediately West of the Area of the Spiral Fresco came to light
two square stone receptacles connected with ducts, which, owing to wrong
analogies, were at first/taken for olive-presses. A more intimate acquaintance,
however, with the drainage system of the Minoan light-courts has conclusively
shown that they were in fact drain-heads,1 in this case in communication with
vertical shafts by which they carried off the water from the roofs and light-well
of the open part of some large Hall above.
There were here two stone drain-heads, a larger and a smaller, both of
1 To Mr. Christian Doll belongs the credit
of having first realized the true function of
these basins. The space formerly known as
the ' Room of the Olive Press' has in con-
sequence of this received the name of the
1 Area of the Stone Drain-heads '.
these wall paintings in the flat were themselves the later outgrowth of
painted reliefs of the preceding Palace stage.
Fra§" It looks as if these remains had originally fallen on to a somewhat
ments , . & J
fallen higher level and had thence been clumped into the basement space by the
Upper M.M. 111 ^ workmen to whom was due the new plaster floor that covered
Hall. it in and on which the tripod pots rested. An indication of this is supplied
by the fact that a fragment of the leg of one of the bulls and pieces of
the red-faced stucco and of the Spiral Fresco itself were found, at a higher level,
at the East end of the cement-paved Corridor defined in the Plan, Fig. 278
below. The occurrence here of fragments of painted stucco decoration be-
longing to a considerable chamber is itself only compatible with the conclusion
that they had fallen from a Hall above. In other words, the whole group
of remains with which we are concerned, including the Spiral Fresco and
the fragments of painted reliefs depicting bull-grappling scenes, together with
the column bases, must have belonged to an Upper Hall, the pavement of
which would have been approximately on a level with the fourth landing of
the Grand Staircase and of the Uppermost E.-W. Corridor. This level is
slightly below that of the Central Court.
It seems further probable that the fragments of painted spiraliform bands
of contemporary fabric embedded in the corresponding M.M. Ill stratum
beneath the pavement of the Magazine of the ' Medallion' Pithoi had found
its way there, at the time of the same catastrophe, from an anterior section
of the same M. M. Ill East Hall—from a portico, that is, facing the Central
Court.
TheStone There remains a still more cogent piece of evidence that an important
heads Palace Hall existed at that level in this Period. In the walled interspace
mistaken between the ' Royal Magazines' and what seems to have been another small
for Olive .
Presses, store-room immediately West of the Area of the Spiral Fresco came to light
two square stone receptacles connected with ducts, which, owing to wrong
analogies, were at first/taken for olive-presses. A more intimate acquaintance,
however, with the drainage system of the Minoan light-courts has conclusively
shown that they were in fact drain-heads,1 in this case in communication with
vertical shafts by which they carried off the water from the roofs and light-well
of the open part of some large Hall above.
There were here two stone drain-heads, a larger and a smaller, both of
1 To Mr. Christian Doll belongs the credit
of having first realized the true function of
these basins. The space formerly known as
the ' Room of the Olive Press' has in con-
sequence of this received the name of the
1 Area of the Stone Drain-heads '.