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)

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THE PALACE OF MINOS, ETC.

the inner Court. The massive piers visible in the Corridor of the Bays
(see Fig. 277), forming as we have seen part of the Royal Magazines, were
clearly designed to support the frontal pillars of an important building facing
the Central Court.

That the original elements of this M. M. Ill East Hall had fitted
on to those of a great part of the Domestic Quarter is placed beyond
doubt by the evidence already supplied. The fabric of the lower part of its
supporting walls to South and East forms, as shown above, an integral part
of the construction of the adjoining Lower E.-W. Corridor and its Northern
branch. The component elements of these, including the timber framework
and masonry panels, extend, as we have seen, into the neighbouring Halls of
the Colonnades and of the Double Axes, practically without a break. The
interrelation thus established is indeed of primary importance in its bearing
on the history of the Domestic Quarter.

Fig. 279. M, M. Ill b Pots from Magazine (formed by blocked section of Earlier Corridor)

at back of ' school room \ (see above, p. 365.)