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'HOUSE OF FRESCOES': ROOM OF THE VASES 435
The enclosed space that contained the fresco heap seems to have been
a kind of closet separated from the body of Room D by what must have
been a thin partition of clay and stucco, such as is so often found in Minoan
buildings, rather than by an actual wall. This partition, however, rested on
the edge of a wall-line belonging to an earlier house, offshoots of which were
also traced, running at right angles to it, in this part of the building. These
remains were explored during the campaign
of 1926, and the masses of pottery associated
with them, and immediately underlying the
floor-levels of the later house, proved to be of
the same class as that of the ' Temple Reposi-
tories' and other contemporary deposits belong-
ing to what may be called the ' earthquake
stratum' of M. M. Ill b. There were a few
late ' tortoise-shell ripple' sherds like those illus-
trated above,1 bat the approach to true poly-
chromy was supplied by the clay tumbler
(Fig. 252) showing dark veins on the light lilac
ground, in imitation of banded stonework.
The spaces D and E are flanked on the
South by the room marked F, and a smaller (G), approached from it, so far
as can be determined from the remains, by two doorways, with a wall-section
between.2 The room F, the walls of which presented plain painted plaster
decoration of the same kind as that better illustrated in H, had a window
opening by its S.E. corner. On the East side a double doorway gave entrance
to a small, nearly square, room, the plaster floor of which showed a central
rectangular pavement of ironstone slabs.
On the floor-level of this room were the almost complete, though
scattered, remains of the painted vessel (Figs. 253, e, and 254) showing
dotted white and 'new red' decoration of the early part of L. M. I, and
designs of Double Axes, which also occurred on a fragment of a cup found
with it. In the S.W. corner, moreover, there stood intact a one-handled
jug with spiral decoration of characteristic L. M. I a style, the form of which
is directly taken from a bronze type, of which a specimen, found in the
Painted Clay
'Tumbler' imitating Veined
Stone from Earlier Stratum,
' House of the Frescoes '.
' P- 363, Fig. 202, a, b.
2 The second door-jamb from the North
S|de is one-sided, showing that it abutted on a
wall. The wall itself had disappeared, but the
jamb of the corresponding door South of it
was found apparently in position, though the
gypsum material had been much disintegrated.
The fellow jamb on this side has been restored
in the plan.
U nder-
lying
stratum
of' Re-
posi-
tories '
date.
Room of
painted
vases.
Double-
Axe
decora-
tion on
jug and
mug.
The enclosed space that contained the fresco heap seems to have been
a kind of closet separated from the body of Room D by what must have
been a thin partition of clay and stucco, such as is so often found in Minoan
buildings, rather than by an actual wall. This partition, however, rested on
the edge of a wall-line belonging to an earlier house, offshoots of which were
also traced, running at right angles to it, in this part of the building. These
remains were explored during the campaign
of 1926, and the masses of pottery associated
with them, and immediately underlying the
floor-levels of the later house, proved to be of
the same class as that of the ' Temple Reposi-
tories' and other contemporary deposits belong-
ing to what may be called the ' earthquake
stratum' of M. M. Ill b. There were a few
late ' tortoise-shell ripple' sherds like those illus-
trated above,1 bat the approach to true poly-
chromy was supplied by the clay tumbler
(Fig. 252) showing dark veins on the light lilac
ground, in imitation of banded stonework.
The spaces D and E are flanked on the
South by the room marked F, and a smaller (G), approached from it, so far
as can be determined from the remains, by two doorways, with a wall-section
between.2 The room F, the walls of which presented plain painted plaster
decoration of the same kind as that better illustrated in H, had a window
opening by its S.E. corner. On the East side a double doorway gave entrance
to a small, nearly square, room, the plaster floor of which showed a central
rectangular pavement of ironstone slabs.
On the floor-level of this room were the almost complete, though
scattered, remains of the painted vessel (Figs. 253, e, and 254) showing
dotted white and 'new red' decoration of the early part of L. M. I, and
designs of Double Axes, which also occurred on a fragment of a cup found
with it. In the S.W. corner, moreover, there stood intact a one-handled
jug with spiral decoration of characteristic L. M. I a style, the form of which
is directly taken from a bronze type, of which a specimen, found in the
Painted Clay
'Tumbler' imitating Veined
Stone from Earlier Stratum,
' House of the Frescoes '.
' P- 363, Fig. 202, a, b.
2 The second door-jamb from the North
S|de is one-sided, showing that it abutted on a
wall. The wall itself had disappeared, but the
jamb of the corresponding door South of it
was found apparently in position, though the
gypsum material had been much disintegrated.
The fellow jamb on this side has been restored
in the plan.
U nder-
lying
stratum
of' Re-
posi-
tories '
date.
Room of
painted
vases.
Double-
Axe
decora-
tion on
jug and
mug.