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M.M. III. FLOOR-CISTS OF W. PALACE REGION 457
In the case of the Eighth Magazine there was little but filling earth in
either the upper or lower receptacle, stained green, apparently owing to the
action of the lead sheeting. The upper receptacles indeed, both here and
elsewhere, were largely empty, the paving slabs simply resting on the edges
of the cists without the support of interior filling. The lower intervals of the
cists, however, examined in other Magazines were found packed with rubble Relics
material, including many odd slips of gypsum slabs and quantities of limy beneath
earth, thus exactly reproducing the phenomena observed in cists b of the Long ~ter
Fig. 328. M.M. Ill Pottery found beneath floor of 'Kasella' in the Fourth
Magazine.
Gallery. One gypsum fragment from the Thirteenth Magazine had been
rudely scratched with lines, intended no doubt to be parallel, between which
some scribe had practised engraving characters of the Linear Script A, Fig. 458.
The precious nature of the original contents of the ' kaselles' was evidenced
by the discovery in their lower interspaces of not inconsiderable quantities of
gold-foil, so largely used at this time for covering carved and inlaid materials.
In the fifth 'kasella' from the West end of Magazine 5 quite a sheet of this
was found crumpled up amidst the earth and rubble. In some cases there
was a certain amount of pottery, all, as far as it presented distinctive M M m
features, of the M. M. Ill class. Among such remains the group shown Pottery
in Fig. 328, found in the lower compartment of a ' kasella' of Magazine 4, nal°C?sts.
In the case of the Eighth Magazine there was little but filling earth in
either the upper or lower receptacle, stained green, apparently owing to the
action of the lead sheeting. The upper receptacles indeed, both here and
elsewhere, were largely empty, the paving slabs simply resting on the edges
of the cists without the support of interior filling. The lower intervals of the
cists, however, examined in other Magazines were found packed with rubble Relics
material, including many odd slips of gypsum slabs and quantities of limy beneath
earth, thus exactly reproducing the phenomena observed in cists b of the Long ~ter
Fig. 328. M.M. Ill Pottery found beneath floor of 'Kasella' in the Fourth
Magazine.
Gallery. One gypsum fragment from the Thirteenth Magazine had been
rudely scratched with lines, intended no doubt to be parallel, between which
some scribe had practised engraving characters of the Linear Script A, Fig. 458.
The precious nature of the original contents of the ' kaselles' was evidenced
by the discovery in their lower interspaces of not inconsiderable quantities of
gold-foil, so largely used at this time for covering carved and inlaid materials.
In the fifth 'kasella' from the West end of Magazine 5 quite a sheet of this
was found crumpled up amidst the earth and rubble. In some cases there
was a certain amount of pottery, all, as far as it presented distinctive M M m
features, of the M. M. Ill class. Among such remains the group shown Pottery
in Fig. 328, found in the lower compartment of a ' kasella' of Magazine 4, nal°C?sts.