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THE PALACE OF MINOS, ETC.
centre of worship in its public aspect, together with its connected system,
will be found conjecturally restored in a Section dealing with the later Palace.
Thanks, however, to the discovery in a well-defined deposit of a remarkable
group of painted plaster fragments, it is possible to obtain a glimpse of
a part at least of these sanctuary structures devoted to the cult of the Double
Axes, as it existed about the close of the Third Middle Minoan Period.
Fig. 318. Gypsum Bases of Columns fallen from Sanctuary above Pillar Rooms.
Floor- It will be shown in the succeeding Section that the floor-cists or
or'Ka- 'Kaselles', that form such a characteristic feature in the M. M. Ill storage
selles'. system, reveal in several of the Magazines two distinct phases in their history.
These had been originally constructed with a depth of about 1-30 metre.
But at a time of architectural remodelling which seems to have taken place
early in the Late Minoan Age they were blocked by shallower and more
superficial receptacles. In the lower part of the original cists and beneath
their later floors were found rubble materials, pottery, and other relics
dating from the close of M. M. Ill, and amongst these, in the case of the
' Kaselles' opened in the Ninth and Thirteenth Magazines, were some fresco
THE PALACE OF MINOS, ETC.
centre of worship in its public aspect, together with its connected system,
will be found conjecturally restored in a Section dealing with the later Palace.
Thanks, however, to the discovery in a well-defined deposit of a remarkable
group of painted plaster fragments, it is possible to obtain a glimpse of
a part at least of these sanctuary structures devoted to the cult of the Double
Axes, as it existed about the close of the Third Middle Minoan Period.
Fig. 318. Gypsum Bases of Columns fallen from Sanctuary above Pillar Rooms.
Floor- It will be shown in the succeeding Section that the floor-cists or
or'Ka- 'Kaselles', that form such a characteristic feature in the M. M. Ill storage
selles'. system, reveal in several of the Magazines two distinct phases in their history.
These had been originally constructed with a depth of about 1-30 metre.
But at a time of architectural remodelling which seems to have taken place
early in the Late Minoan Age they were blocked by shallower and more
superficial receptacles. In the lower part of the original cists and beneath
their later floors were found rubble materials, pottery, and other relics
dating from the close of M. M. Ill, and amongst these, in the case of the
' Kaselles' opened in the Ninth and Thirteenth Magazines, were some fresco