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M. M. Ill: THE PALACE POTTERY STORES 569
the other Palace store-rooms and repositories of this Period, since they do
not represent vessels already in use in various departments but the assorted
stock of a fabric. The pots were of domestic kinds, presenting a plain clay
surface (see Figs. 414, 415), and they were evidently made to supply the needs
of what seems at this time to have been a quarter of the Palace occupied
Fig. 414. Sketch-plan of the North-East Magazines and Contents
by workmen or slaves. It is noteworthy, indeed, that in the area imme-
diately East of this, where were the Royal Pottery Stores so rich in the
exquisitely tinted 'egg-shell' ware of the M. M. II Period, a higher
stratum came to light on which lay stacks of ordinary vessels like those found
in the present case. No contrast could be more complete.
A plan of these North-East Magazines, as conjecturally completed, has
the other Palace store-rooms and repositories of this Period, since they do
not represent vessels already in use in various departments but the assorted
stock of a fabric. The pots were of domestic kinds, presenting a plain clay
surface (see Figs. 414, 415), and they were evidently made to supply the needs
of what seems at this time to have been a quarter of the Palace occupied
Fig. 414. Sketch-plan of the North-East Magazines and Contents
by workmen or slaves. It is noteworthy, indeed, that in the area imme-
diately East of this, where were the Royal Pottery Stores so rich in the
exquisitely tinted 'egg-shell' ware of the M. M. II Period, a higher
stratum came to light on which lay stacks of ordinary vessels like those found
in the present case. No contrast could be more complete.
A plan of these North-East Magazines, as conjecturally completed, has