Evans, Arthur J.: The Palace of Minos: a comparative account of the successive stages of the early Cretan civilization as illustred by the discoveries at Knossos (Band 1): The Neolithic and Early and Middle Minoan Ages (London, 1921)

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THE PALACE OF MINOS, ETC.

been already given in connexion with the North-East Hall.1 That portion
of it within which the vessels were preserved (Sketch-plan, Fig. 414) forms
a rectangular enclosure within which the store rooms are grouped on either
side of a gangway,2 an arrangement that finds a parallel at Phaestos and
which in Egypt can be traced back to the days of the earliest Dynasties.

Fig. 415. Group of Vessels from the N.E. Magazines (i c).

Owing to the denudation of the slope of the hill, the later structures
that had been constructed when the Magazines were filled in had almost
entirely disappeared, and the stacks of pottery began to appear almost
immediately beneath the surface.'5 Some remains, however, pointing to

1 See above, p. 389, Fig. 281.

2 This gangway was only 90 cm. wide.

3 Owing to the slope of the hill the floors

of the Magazines, which had a depth of from
1-50 to 1-40 m. on their Western borders, lay
only 80-70 cm. down at their East ends.