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.

Later
Shrine of
Double
Axes.

Domestic
Arrange-
ment
of N.
Section
of S.E.
Insula.

shape as those found in the larger ' Lustral Basin'1 and doubtless used here too
to contain the oil for ritual anointing. Near this was a small chamber which,
if we may believe in religious tradition, was designed for purposes of worship.
In the Re-occupation Period
it was used as a shrine, with
vessels of offering- on its
later floor, and an altar ledge
with clay figures of the Dove
Goddess and her votaries and
double axes set in the Sacral
Horns.2

The Northern Section of
this group of structures has a
decidedly domestic appearance,
and may have been the resi-
dence of a priestly functionary.
This part of the S.E. Insula was
more especially affected by the
process of filling in, and many
of the contents of its domestic
buildings were thus preserved
in sitit in the same way as
those of the Magazines North
of the Domestic Quarter.

A Plan of the small cham-
bers and Magazines here un-
earthed is given in Fig. 419,
and it will be seen that it was
divided into two parallel groups,
each approached by a narrow
passage.

That to the left ran straight
to the aperture of a narrow
closet or small store-room filled with vessels, including the ' lily' jars, and at
this point turned South at right angles into a small paved chamber which,
as will be shown, served as a bath-room.

Fig. 420. Clay and Plaster Closet or Small
Magazine containing the Lily Jars as exca-
vated.

1 See above, p. 411, and Fig. 295. 2 Knossos, Report, 1902 (B.S.A., viii), p. 93 ff., Fig. 55.