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M. M. Ill: THE PALACE POTTERY STORES 571
an improvement in the conditions of this area in the ensuing L. Mi I
Period occurred in the superficial stratum. Among these was an elegant
tripod stand of dark steatite (see Fig. 414) found in the upper level of
Chamber 5. Its palmette-shaped legs were embedded in a stratum of
carbonized wood with quantities of gold-foil such as was used as a
decorative coating for various materials. The date of these later deposits
was further indicated by stores of L. M. I ' tortoiseshell ripple ' cups found
on the same level, outside the W. wall of Chamber 4. Of great interest,
moreover, was the discovery at the same level of a man's arm in painted
stucco relief.
Some idea of the manner in which the pottery was stored is given
by my Sketch-plan (Fig. 414) made during the course of the excavation.
The pots, as will be seen, were methodically distributed in rows and piles
of the interior compartments as indicated in Fig. 415. The bowls were Arrange-
socketed into one another, and the cups stacked in roti/eaux (see Fig. 415, a pottery
and d). Many of the larger pots showed the ' trickle' decoration, and some in Ma§a~
. . zines.
vessels bore traces of white on a brownish lilac ground. Otherwise the
pottery found here presented a dull clay surface.
A private stock of similar vessels was found in the little store-room
behind the N.E. Hall and, near by, a stucco seat and tripod hearth.1 These
structures communicated with the N.E. Magazines by a small passage-way
behind, and may have formed part, as suggested above, of the residence of the
master-potter.
M. M. Ill Layer above Royal Pottery Stores.
So extensive now was the fabric of 'rustic' ware throughout this M.M.III
Potter
Palace region that the use of the old ' Royal Pottery Stores' that lay beyond ,lbov([y
the terrace wall East of the N.E. Magazines was now revived to afford £°yal
& Pottery
additional accommodation for these cheap products. In a stratum, separated Stores,
by layers of clay and burnt materials from that containing the fine egg-shell
cups and bowls of the earlier fabric, lay piles of these comparatively rough
vessels, many of them plain wide-mouthed pots with trickle ornament,
like those of the N.E. Magazines, Fig. 410, c, but some with a lilac brown
ground and white bands, of the form reproduced in Fig. 410, a.
These vases, like b, the inscribed jar from the S.W. Basement, and Elonga-
c, belonging to a series abundantly forthcoming in the N.E. Magazines,
afford good illustrations of that elongation of shape which is a very charac-
teristic feature of this epoch. The type illustrated in Fig. 416, c, as Mr. Seager
1 See above, p. 390, and Fig. 281.
orm.
an improvement in the conditions of this area in the ensuing L. Mi I
Period occurred in the superficial stratum. Among these was an elegant
tripod stand of dark steatite (see Fig. 414) found in the upper level of
Chamber 5. Its palmette-shaped legs were embedded in a stratum of
carbonized wood with quantities of gold-foil such as was used as a
decorative coating for various materials. The date of these later deposits
was further indicated by stores of L. M. I ' tortoiseshell ripple ' cups found
on the same level, outside the W. wall of Chamber 4. Of great interest,
moreover, was the discovery at the same level of a man's arm in painted
stucco relief.
Some idea of the manner in which the pottery was stored is given
by my Sketch-plan (Fig. 414) made during the course of the excavation.
The pots, as will be seen, were methodically distributed in rows and piles
of the interior compartments as indicated in Fig. 415. The bowls were Arrange-
socketed into one another, and the cups stacked in roti/eaux (see Fig. 415, a pottery
and d). Many of the larger pots showed the ' trickle' decoration, and some in Ma§a~
. . zines.
vessels bore traces of white on a brownish lilac ground. Otherwise the
pottery found here presented a dull clay surface.
A private stock of similar vessels was found in the little store-room
behind the N.E. Hall and, near by, a stucco seat and tripod hearth.1 These
structures communicated with the N.E. Magazines by a small passage-way
behind, and may have formed part, as suggested above, of the residence of the
master-potter.
M. M. Ill Layer above Royal Pottery Stores.
So extensive now was the fabric of 'rustic' ware throughout this M.M.III
Potter
Palace region that the use of the old ' Royal Pottery Stores' that lay beyond ,lbov([y
the terrace wall East of the N.E. Magazines was now revived to afford £°yal
& Pottery
additional accommodation for these cheap products. In a stratum, separated Stores,
by layers of clay and burnt materials from that containing the fine egg-shell
cups and bowls of the earlier fabric, lay piles of these comparatively rough
vessels, many of them plain wide-mouthed pots with trickle ornament,
like those of the N.E. Magazines, Fig. 410, c, but some with a lilac brown
ground and white bands, of the form reproduced in Fig. 410, a.
These vases, like b, the inscribed jar from the S.W. Basement, and Elonga-
c, belonging to a series abundantly forthcoming in the N.E. Magazines,
afford good illustrations of that elongation of shape which is a very charac-
teristic feature of this epoch. The type illustrated in Fig. 416, c, as Mr. Seager
1 See above, p. 390, and Fig. 281.
orm.