Evans, Arthur J.: The Palace of Minos: a comparative account of the successive stages of the early Cretan civilization as illustred by the discoveries at Knossos (Band 1): The Neolithic and Early and Middle Minoan Ages (London, 1921)

THE PALACE OF MINOS, ETC.

of this Period, these Magazines were filled in to provide a higher platform
for what seems to have been a Late Minoan version of the same great Palace
Hall, it looks as if the light-area of this had been connected up with the
older drainage system and the presence of a certain proportion of L. M. I
sherds in the topmost layer corroborates this conclusion. It would thus
appear that this later Hall had substantially followed the same lines as its
Middle Minoan predecessor. It is to this later Hall that I have ventured

Fig. 277. Corridor of Bays showing Piers that acted as Supports for Frontal

Pillars of East Hall above.

to refer the fallen remains of the painted stucco high reliefs—the crowning

achievement of Minoan Art—and the Griffin Frieze, which had survived

in situ in this area to the last days of the Palace.1

A glance at the M. M. Ill plan of this section of the building (Fig. 278)

is itself sufficient to suggest the stately lines of a great Upper Hall, with its

entrance piers and successive lines of basement walls and its middle space with

M. M. ill the earth filling, adapted for the support of stylobates and colonnades and of
East Hall. t>- r ft )

Sub-
structures
showing
Plan of
Great

1 See Vol. II.