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 2,1): Fresh lights on origins and external relations (London, 1928)

SECTION OF EARLY TOWN OF KNOSSOS

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been afforded "by the excavations undertaken by me in 1926 in the area S.E.
immediately North-West of the ' House of the Frescoes' described below. Angle!

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QE FRESCOES

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Spot- levels are below ground level
N-UMBERS IN SQUARES REFER TO POTTERY
METRES

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Fig. 203. Section of Early Town, Knossos, with M. M. I a Drain and
Basements of M. M. Ill a Houses. (By Piet de Jong.)

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A plan, executed by Mr. Piet de Jong, of part of the Town section ^of1
here revealed, is given in Fig-, 203. A remarkable feature of the original ' House
constructions is a built drain of rough-hewn blocks. The earliest pottery Frescoes