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FOUNDATIONS OF EARLIER HOUSES 299
L. M. I houses at Tylissos,1 without knobs, but with raised rope pattern of
a much conventionalized kind and 'trickle' ornament running down their sides.2
Between this well-lighted workroom and the magazines to North and Access by
South of it were two narrow apertures one of which was only about 36 t^ cioged
centimetres or 14 inches in width, and the other not more than half a metre. base~
These mere slits could have hardly been doorways in the ordinary sense,
and must have been primarily designed to give some light to small store-
rooms. To these, as in the case of all the basement rooms, access would have
been obtained by means of ladders from the upper story. The small space
in the S.E. angle of the house must be regarded as an example of the store-
cists so usual at the time.
It is specially to be noted that neither in this house, nor in that A'Tower
immediately West of it, was there any trace of entrances on the ground floor. ouse
The outer walls in fact, showing rough coursing, were in both cases built in
one continuous fabric all round, within which the thinner inner partitions
were simply built on without any keying. The ' House of the Fallen Blocks '
must have been entered either by a plank bridge from the neighbouring
terrace level, or by means of an exterior ladder, drawn up perhaps at night
as is the case to-day with the Tower Houses of North Albanian mountain
villages. This plan of building with a closed basement, the better to protect
the stores within, is also very characteristic of Middle Cycladic houses.
Skirting two walls of this house and following the narrow lane that
separates it from the house to the West (see Fig. 173) runs a diminutive
built drain3 with stone slabbing above and below, and side walls of smaller
stone, set in a clay bedding.* This drain which runs towards the Southern
slope must have ascended a continuation of the same lane Northwards,
past other little contemporary dwellings. The traces of these, however,
have been lost beneath the foundations of a more spacious mansion—the
' House of the Chancel Screen ', described below—belonging to the epoch
of restoration after the great earthquake. The lane itself has a mean width
1 J. Hatzidakis, TV'/Wo-os MivuiiKrj. also occurred on many remains of smaller jars.
2 The raised rope decoration was made by 3 This was about 14 centimetres wide inter-
the thumb, and the attempt to imitate the nally with a depth increasing as it ran South
actual rope was more deliberate than in the from 14 to 25 cm. Its channel was cut out
L. M. I examples. Dr. Mackenzie notes that of the red ' kouskouras ' rock.
specimens showed signs of the use of a ' blunt 4 Dr. Mackenzie notes that in the case of
wooden instrument like a paper-knife' (see Cycladic street construction and at Phylakopi
below, pp. 418, 419, Figs. 241 a, b). Remains of the drains run along the middle of the pas-
similar pottery also occurred in the filling ma- sages,
terial of the house to the West. Rope pattern
L. M. I houses at Tylissos,1 without knobs, but with raised rope pattern of
a much conventionalized kind and 'trickle' ornament running down their sides.2
Between this well-lighted workroom and the magazines to North and Access by
South of it were two narrow apertures one of which was only about 36 t^ cioged
centimetres or 14 inches in width, and the other not more than half a metre. base~
These mere slits could have hardly been doorways in the ordinary sense,
and must have been primarily designed to give some light to small store-
rooms. To these, as in the case of all the basement rooms, access would have
been obtained by means of ladders from the upper story. The small space
in the S.E. angle of the house must be regarded as an example of the store-
cists so usual at the time.
It is specially to be noted that neither in this house, nor in that A'Tower
immediately West of it, was there any trace of entrances on the ground floor. ouse
The outer walls in fact, showing rough coursing, were in both cases built in
one continuous fabric all round, within which the thinner inner partitions
were simply built on without any keying. The ' House of the Fallen Blocks '
must have been entered either by a plank bridge from the neighbouring
terrace level, or by means of an exterior ladder, drawn up perhaps at night
as is the case to-day with the Tower Houses of North Albanian mountain
villages. This plan of building with a closed basement, the better to protect
the stores within, is also very characteristic of Middle Cycladic houses.
Skirting two walls of this house and following the narrow lane that
separates it from the house to the West (see Fig. 173) runs a diminutive
built drain3 with stone slabbing above and below, and side walls of smaller
stone, set in a clay bedding.* This drain which runs towards the Southern
slope must have ascended a continuation of the same lane Northwards,
past other little contemporary dwellings. The traces of these, however,
have been lost beneath the foundations of a more spacious mansion—the
' House of the Chancel Screen ', described below—belonging to the epoch
of restoration after the great earthquake. The lane itself has a mean width
1 J. Hatzidakis, TV'/Wo-os MivuiiKrj. also occurred on many remains of smaller jars.
2 The raised rope decoration was made by 3 This was about 14 centimetres wide inter-
the thumb, and the attempt to imitate the nally with a depth increasing as it ran South
actual rope was more deliberate than in the from 14 to 25 cm. Its channel was cut out
L. M. I examples. Dr. Mackenzie notes that of the red ' kouskouras ' rock.
specimens showed signs of the use of a ' blunt 4 Dr. Mackenzie notes that in the case of
wooden instrument like a paper-knife' (see Cycladic street construction and at Phylakopi
below, pp. 418, 419, Figs. 241 a, b). Remains of the drains run along the middle of the pas-
similar pottery also occurred in the filling ma- sages,
terial of the house to the West. Rope pattern