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)

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EARLY DRAIN AND M. M. I POTTERY

brought out was of the typical M. M. la class, masses of which were found
within it. The channel makes several bends, following, no doubt, the
interspaces between houses of the same Period and in its upper course is
divided into two branches (see Fig. 204). Some ten metres North of the

Fig. 204. View showing Early Town Drain and Middle Minoan Basements.

E . lower end of its course, so far as this was traced, it reappears, beyond an

drain and unexplored strip, and runs beneath the paving of the ' Royal Road'. Among

ery" the remains of advanced polychrome vases belonging to the close of M. M. I a

found within the drain was a very beautiful bowl (Fig. 205) with barbotine

designs of stylized crocuses in orange and bright red.