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two shorter fixed in grooves cut out of the longer, and all socketed into a base-
block of soft limestone. Apparently for the sake of dryness, the intervals
that separated them from the retaining masonry and from the slabs dividing
one ' kasella' from another were filled with a fine red potter's earth resembling

Fig. 324. Faience Inlays from Sixth 'Kasella' of Long Gallery, some coated with Gold-foil.

that used for the clay tablets (see Fig. 325, c). Remains of a lead lining
was also found within the cists themselves.

Various indications went to show that this group of ' kaselles' had Remains

. , .. . _ . . . > r i • i r • of precious

contained precious relics.1 In their interior wefp. tound inlays oi various Contents,
materials, remains of gold-foil and masses of carbonized wood. The best
evidence was produced by the sixth cist, opposite the door of Magazine 6.

1 See Knossos, Report, 1903, p. 31 seqq.
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