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trolled from the South. Immediately within, to the right on entering,
opened a passage-way leading to the Pillar Rooms and associated system.
On the other hand access to this section of the Magazines was apparently
confined on the North to the staircase at that end, the 'insula' formed

COUR

FACADE or LATEP SHRINE

CENTRAL COURT

Fig. 322. Part of West Section of Palace, showing 'Enclave of Kaselles' and
Repositories near Pillar Crypts of Central Shrine.

by Magazines 14-18 being cut off by another smaller cross wall barring the The
narrow passage West of the staircase. This ' Enclave of the Kaselles ' was Palace
thus converted at this time into a kind of Palace Treasury, shut in in such Undaer Y'
a way that it could be kept under careful custody. That it was specially divir>e
placed under religious guardianship is shown, not only by the recurrence of fhip. 'an"
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