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M. M. Ill: THE PALACE POTTERY STORES
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the object being in this case to form a platform so as to be able to construct
a new East Hall more on a level with the Central Court. Tripod vases,
like those of the N.E. Magazines, were found on the floor of a compartment
in this area, while the 'School Room' and the adjoining M. M. Ill store-
rooms were simultaneously earthed under in the same manner. A group of
contemporary vessels from one of these—the Magazine formed out of the
Section of the earlier Corridor—has
been illustrated above.1
Area South of Domestic Quarter—
South-East Insula.
On the upper terrace level im- The
mediately South of the Domestic East
Ouarter is an area enclosed between Insu
the original enceinte wall and what
seems to have been a ramp leading to
the Central Court from the South.
This region, the interior of which is
marked on the Diagrammatic Plan of
the Earlier Palace, Fig. 152 above, as
a blank, presents a whole system of
buildings belonging to the M. M. Ill
Period. Here, too, at the close of
that Period, we find further traces
of the consistent endeavour, already
noticed in the area North of the
Fig. 417. Breccia Vase, Mochlos (f<r.). Domestic Ouarter, to raise the ground
level. In the North-Western parts
of the area, especially where this raising process had to be carried
out to a greater height, this operation resulted, as in the former case, in
a considerable earthing under of the pottery stores of the M. M. Ill
Magazines.
The Plan of the M. M. Ill structures in this 'South-East Insula'
as it existed on the original terrace level is shown in Fig. 418. What
seems to have been the residential portion, on the Northern borders of
the region, is well preserved and its essential lines, like those of the
Domestic Ouarter, go back to the beginning of this Period, including
1 See above, p. 384, Fig. 279.
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the object being in this case to form a platform so as to be able to construct
a new East Hall more on a level with the Central Court. Tripod vases,
like those of the N.E. Magazines, were found on the floor of a compartment
in this area, while the 'School Room' and the adjoining M. M. Ill store-
rooms were simultaneously earthed under in the same manner. A group of
contemporary vessels from one of these—the Magazine formed out of the
Section of the earlier Corridor—has
been illustrated above.1
Area South of Domestic Quarter—
South-East Insula.
On the upper terrace level im- The
mediately South of the Domestic East
Ouarter is an area enclosed between Insu
the original enceinte wall and what
seems to have been a ramp leading to
the Central Court from the South.
This region, the interior of which is
marked on the Diagrammatic Plan of
the Earlier Palace, Fig. 152 above, as
a blank, presents a whole system of
buildings belonging to the M. M. Ill
Period. Here, too, at the close of
that Period, we find further traces
of the consistent endeavour, already
noticed in the area North of the
Fig. 417. Breccia Vase, Mochlos (f<r.). Domestic Ouarter, to raise the ground
level. In the North-Western parts
of the area, especially where this raising process had to be carried
out to a greater height, this operation resulted, as in the former case, in
a considerable earthing under of the pottery stores of the M. M. Ill
Magazines.
The Plan of the M. M. Ill structures in this 'South-East Insula'
as it existed on the original terrace level is shown in Fig. 418. What
seems to have been the residential portion, on the Northern borders of
the region, is well preserved and its essential lines, like those of the
Domestic Ouarter, go back to the beginning of this Period, including
1 See above, p. 384, Fig. 279.