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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stylobate and the wall1 was only just wide enough to afford shelter to those
passing from the outer to the inner door. This arrangement, showing a four-
columned light-well, is unique at Knossos, but recurs in the Palace at
Phaestos in the ' Megaron of the Women's Quarter ', also described as the
' Family Meeting Room '.2

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Fig. 281. Plan of North-East Hall and Magazines.

The double inner doorway of the N.E. Hall is explained by the curious
subdivision of the walled space into which it opens. The door on the right
hand leads through a kind of vestibule to a passage-way beyond, passing on

1 The limestone column bases (70 cm. in
diameter) were only i-io metres from the N.
wall of the ' Megaron '.

2 ' Sala di convegni famigliari' ; No. 50
in Dr. Pernier's Plan, Mon. Ant., xiv. See
op. tit., p. 374, Fig. 23 ; and p. 379, Fig. 27.