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POTTERY, MATURE M. M. Ill 311
eleven inches, and of which the trunk and the legs to the knees were
preserved. Its attitude, with the body thrown back, presents an interesting
anticipation of that of the processional figures on the frescoes belonging to the
Entrance Corridor of the Palace and of the adjoining South Propylaeum,
and an illustration of this relief is therefore reserved for the Section dealing
with these frescoes.1
Everything points to the great mass of the remains found in the filling Earth-
of the ' House of the Sacrificed Oxen ' and the adjoining ' House of the Fallen coincides
Blocks'—which was of identical composition—having' represented the mature w,lth.
. . . . closing
stage of the Third Middle Minoan Period. The prevailing ceramic types, as phase b
has been shown, were identical with those of a whole series of deposits m b'ut'
throughout the Palace area. There were no relics in it or in any of these not,,ts
? ... end.
deposits of the succeeding Late Minoan Age. At Knossos, therefore, the
great physical catastrophe of which we have now obtained direct evidence
approximately coincides with a turning-point in cultural history. The
great Earthquake here was felicitously timed, though it cannot be regarded
as having set an absolute term to the M. M. Ill phase of culture. It
was coincident with the phase best represented in the Temple Repositories
that marks the full development of M. M. Ill b. But, as will be shown below,
the restoration of the Palace and of the surrounding houses of the Town of
Knossos must still be reckoned as having come within the lowest limits of that
Middle Minoan epoch as ceramically defined. The associated ceramic remains
demonstrate, in fact, that in that department the L. M. I stage of evolution
had not yet been reached.
Some parts of the Palace area, such as the Southern Corridor—at least Shrinking
its Western Section and the South-Eastern corner, underlain by the newly bouna-dC
discovered vault—were now definitely abandoned. A section to the North- Varies on
• • "a 1 ■ South ana
West, including the ' Initiatory Area , seems to have been already given North-
up. Only in the Domestic Quarter do we find considerable structural
continuity even in the upper stories. We are supplied, on all hands, with
a definite archaeological landmark.
1 See below, p. 753.
eleven inches, and of which the trunk and the legs to the knees were
preserved. Its attitude, with the body thrown back, presents an interesting
anticipation of that of the processional figures on the frescoes belonging to the
Entrance Corridor of the Palace and of the adjoining South Propylaeum,
and an illustration of this relief is therefore reserved for the Section dealing
with these frescoes.1
Everything points to the great mass of the remains found in the filling Earth-
of the ' House of the Sacrificed Oxen ' and the adjoining ' House of the Fallen coincides
Blocks'—which was of identical composition—having' represented the mature w,lth.
. . . . closing
stage of the Third Middle Minoan Period. The prevailing ceramic types, as phase b
has been shown, were identical with those of a whole series of deposits m b'ut'
throughout the Palace area. There were no relics in it or in any of these not,,ts
? ... end.
deposits of the succeeding Late Minoan Age. At Knossos, therefore, the
great physical catastrophe of which we have now obtained direct evidence
approximately coincides with a turning-point in cultural history. The
great Earthquake here was felicitously timed, though it cannot be regarded
as having set an absolute term to the M. M. Ill phase of culture. It
was coincident with the phase best represented in the Temple Repositories
that marks the full development of M. M. Ill b. But, as will be shown below,
the restoration of the Palace and of the surrounding houses of the Town of
Knossos must still be reckoned as having come within the lowest limits of that
Middle Minoan epoch as ceramically defined. The associated ceramic remains
demonstrate, in fact, that in that department the L. M. I stage of evolution
had not yet been reached.
Some parts of the Palace area, such as the Southern Corridor—at least Shrinking
its Western Section and the South-Eastern corner, underlain by the newly bouna-dC
discovered vault—were now definitely abandoned. A section to the North- Varies on
• • "a 1 ■ South ana
West, including the ' Initiatory Area , seems to have been already given North-
up. Only in the Domestic Quarter do we find considerable structural
continuity even in the upper stories. We are supplied, on all hands, with
a definite archaeological landmark.
1 See below, p. 753.