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xii THE PALACE OF MINOS, ETC.
It is with the greatest pleasure that I have to record that Mr. Theodore
Fyfe, at present Director of the Cambridge University School of Architecture,
to whom the earliest plans of the Palace were due, was able at my request
to pass some weeks at Knossos in 1926, where he superintended the final re-
constitution of the exquisite little Royal Villa—the earlier planning of which
was also due to him—thus assuring its permanent conservation. He has
also been able to bring the general plans of the Palace, including that of the
restored piano nobile of the West Section, up to date in the form in which
they are presented at the end of Part II of this Volume. He has thus
incorporated the results of Mr. Christian Doll's thoroughgoing work in the
East quarter, as well as the late Mr. F. G. Newton's restorations of the Upper
Palace halls on the West. At the same time he has been able to execute
for the present work the fine restored view of the South Propylaeum, and
to reproduce a series of delicate details of sculptured friezes.
The plans of the 'South House'—with many interesting details, even
to the form of Minoan locks—here for the first time published—as well as
those of the ' Little Palace ', are the work of Mr. Christian Doll. For several
plans and sections both inside and outside of the Palace, and some excellent
drawings, I have also been indebted to Mr. Piet de Jong, whose services
were on several occasions placed at my disposal by the Director of the
British School at Athens. Thanks to the Trustees of the British Museum,
Mr. E. J. Forsdyke of the Department of Classical Antiquities was able at
my request to assist in the excavation of the early cemetery beyond the
Kairatos, and this was continued by him independently with interesting results
in 1927.
To Monsieur E. Gillieron, fils, I have been continually indebted for his
invaluable assistance in piecing together painted plaster panels and his
skilled restoration of the fresco designs, some of which have supplied the
Coloured Plates of this Volume. With his help I have also been able to
place replicas of some of the most interesting of these in the positions
occupied by the originals on the Palace walls.
My researches into the early relations of Knossos with the pre-dynastic
civilization of the Nile Valley, set forth in the earlier Sections of this
Volume, have been much assisted by the fertile exploration of the Vaulted
Tombs of Mesara by Dr. Stephanos Xanthudides, the Cretan Ephor of
It is with the greatest pleasure that I have to record that Mr. Theodore
Fyfe, at present Director of the Cambridge University School of Architecture,
to whom the earliest plans of the Palace were due, was able at my request
to pass some weeks at Knossos in 1926, where he superintended the final re-
constitution of the exquisite little Royal Villa—the earlier planning of which
was also due to him—thus assuring its permanent conservation. He has
also been able to bring the general plans of the Palace, including that of the
restored piano nobile of the West Section, up to date in the form in which
they are presented at the end of Part II of this Volume. He has thus
incorporated the results of Mr. Christian Doll's thoroughgoing work in the
East quarter, as well as the late Mr. F. G. Newton's restorations of the Upper
Palace halls on the West. At the same time he has been able to execute
for the present work the fine restored view of the South Propylaeum, and
to reproduce a series of delicate details of sculptured friezes.
The plans of the 'South House'—with many interesting details, even
to the form of Minoan locks—here for the first time published—as well as
those of the ' Little Palace ', are the work of Mr. Christian Doll. For several
plans and sections both inside and outside of the Palace, and some excellent
drawings, I have also been indebted to Mr. Piet de Jong, whose services
were on several occasions placed at my disposal by the Director of the
British School at Athens. Thanks to the Trustees of the British Museum,
Mr. E. J. Forsdyke of the Department of Classical Antiquities was able at
my request to assist in the excavation of the early cemetery beyond the
Kairatos, and this was continued by him independently with interesting results
in 1927.
To Monsieur E. Gillieron, fils, I have been continually indebted for his
invaluable assistance in piecing together painted plaster panels and his
skilled restoration of the fresco designs, some of which have supplied the
Coloured Plates of this Volume. With his help I have also been able to
place replicas of some of the most interesting of these in the positions
occupied by the originals on the Palace walls.
My researches into the early relations of Knossos with the pre-dynastic
civilization of the Nile Valley, set forth in the earlier Sections of this
Volume, have been much assisted by the fertile exploration of the Vaulted
Tombs of Mesara by Dr. Stephanos Xanthudides, the Cretan Ephor of