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M. M. Ill: NORTH QUARTER AND ENTRANCE 391
It may well be that the N.E. Hall and the rest of the building- with
which it was connected was the residence of a foreman or official overseer
of the potters.
It is probable that the northward continuation of the ' Corridor of the n.E.
Draught-board' brought it, by a turn West, into connexion with the gate by EntK
which this Quarter was entered on that side.
This N.E. Entrance, as will be seen from the suggested restoration in
Fig. 282, seems to have also given access, by a passage-way running directly
Eastwards through an opening in the 'Upper Terrace Facade', to the
Fig. 282. Restored Plan of North-Eastern Entrance, as remodelled
in M. M. III.
region, otherwise much isolated from the rest of the building, described on
the Diagrammatic Plan, Fig. 152 above, as the 'North-East Insula'. The
Royal Pottery Stores, indeed, that were situated on the upper level of this
must have stood in constant need of some convenient access from the
outside world, if only for the carrying in of the needful supplies of fine clay.
The Entrance passage itself by which these passed was probably flanked
by some kind of guard-room.
The main passage that leads South from the North-East Entrance and
which served the ' Northern Quarter' with which we are now dealing, after
a course of about a dozen metres, turns Eastward at right angles up a flight
It may well be that the N.E. Hall and the rest of the building- with
which it was connected was the residence of a foreman or official overseer
of the potters.
It is probable that the northward continuation of the ' Corridor of the n.E.
Draught-board' brought it, by a turn West, into connexion with the gate by EntK
which this Quarter was entered on that side.
This N.E. Entrance, as will be seen from the suggested restoration in
Fig. 282, seems to have also given access, by a passage-way running directly
Eastwards through an opening in the 'Upper Terrace Facade', to the
Fig. 282. Restored Plan of North-Eastern Entrance, as remodelled
in M. M. III.
region, otherwise much isolated from the rest of the building, described on
the Diagrammatic Plan, Fig. 152 above, as the 'North-East Insula'. The
Royal Pottery Stores, indeed, that were situated on the upper level of this
must have stood in constant need of some convenient access from the
outside world, if only for the carrying in of the needful supplies of fine clay.
The Entrance passage itself by which these passed was probably flanked
by some kind of guard-room.
The main passage that leads South from the North-East Entrance and
which served the ' Northern Quarter' with which we are now dealing, after
a course of about a dozen metres, turns Eastward at right angles up a flight