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THE PALACE OF MINOS, ETC.

doubtless in the course of this work that some later painted sherds found

their way into the superficial earth below.1
Cists of These conclusions, as already noted, are strongly corroborated by the

Group c. analogy supplied by a group of three cists, c on Plan, Fig. 322, found in what

VLSTIBULE OF
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REMAINS OF GREEN SCHIST PAVEMENT

STEPS TO FLOOR
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a. LIMESTONE CIST WITH M.M.III POTTERY & FAIENCE

B. CORRIDOR OR MAGAZINE with GYPSUM SLABBING 8c PADOES [FILLED IN]

C. REMAINS OF L.M.I.PITHOS • FOUND IN CORRIDOR

D. REMAINS OF BORDERS OF 5 SUCCESSIVE PLASTER FLOORS

Fig. 326. Section under Stepped Porch (L. M. II) showing L. M. I Magazine

superposed on M. M. Ill ClST.

had been a Magazine of this Period, immediately N. of the larger cist of the
same class known as the ' Eastern Temple Repository \-2 These cists, which
answered to the latter in construction, contained in their filling materials,
though much more sparsely, relics and pottery similar to that from the

1 Some fragments of ordinary pithoi, perhaps
L. M. I, were found, for instance in the super-
ficial stratum of the Sixth Cist of Series a,
the contents of which are described above
So, too, beneath the pavement above cists of
Class b, there occurred one or two painted
sherds of a Late Minoan type. These are
described in the original Report for 1903 as of
the Latest Palace Period (p. 35), but this must

be taken in connexion with the accompanying
description of the M. M. Ill contents of the
'kaselles' as belonging to what was then called
the ' First Period of the Later Palace '. The
two cists of Class b nearest the stairs at the
N. end of the Long Gallery were found open
and contained pottery belonging to the Period
of Re-occupation (L. M. Ill b).
2 See below, p. 468.