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LITTLE PALACE': THE LUSTRAL AREA
5'9
Fig. 320.
due to the progressive deforestation of the country. It is to be observed Symp-
that at this epoch the vertical posts in the walls—very characteristic of timber
Middle Minoan archi- shortage-
tecture down to the
earlier phase of the
Third Period,—now be-
gin to disappear.
In this part of the Crude
bnclvS
building there weremany from
sunken remains of upper u,pp?r
1 l stones.
stories showing sun-
dried brick construction,
the bricks being about
45 centimetres square
and 12 cm. high. In
the S.W. Pillar Room
there were two stacks of
these, evidently brought
in for purposes of re-
storation. An upper
wall by the main staircase showed a well-preserved brick in position with
parts of others from a collapsed pier above (Fig. 320). Good examples of
similar brick structures occurred in the S.E. Magazines of the Great Palace.1
Lustral Area with Fluted Columns: re-used as Fetish Shrine.
A double doorway to the West of the inner section of the ' Hall of the Sunken
Peristyle ' gave access to a self-contained and nearly symmetrical system area.
centreing round a sunken area of the lustral type, surrounded by columnar
balustrades. The entrance to this, according to the original arrangement,
was by a narrow passage with gypsum paving that ran along the farther
side of the back wall of the first section of the Megaron. It flanked the
Eastern balustrade of the ' lustral area', and must have obtained its light
from the openings between the columns. Passing these, it entered, by
a second doorway, a kind of ante-room that must have served some ritual
purpose. From a doorway in the S.W. corner of this a paved descent led
by six steps to the floor of the sunken space, also originally covered with
gypsum slabbing.
Sun-dried Bricks : from Upper Story,
' Little Palace '.
1 See A. E., K/wssos, Excavations, 1905, p. 4, Fig. 1.
5'9
Fig. 320.
due to the progressive deforestation of the country. It is to be observed Symp-
that at this epoch the vertical posts in the walls—very characteristic of timber
Middle Minoan archi- shortage-
tecture down to the
earlier phase of the
Third Period,—now be-
gin to disappear.
In this part of the Crude
bnclvS
building there weremany from
sunken remains of upper u,pp?r
1 l stones.
stories showing sun-
dried brick construction,
the bricks being about
45 centimetres square
and 12 cm. high. In
the S.W. Pillar Room
there were two stacks of
these, evidently brought
in for purposes of re-
storation. An upper
wall by the main staircase showed a well-preserved brick in position with
parts of others from a collapsed pier above (Fig. 320). Good examples of
similar brick structures occurred in the S.E. Magazines of the Great Palace.1
Lustral Area with Fluted Columns: re-used as Fetish Shrine.
A double doorway to the West of the inner section of the ' Hall of the Sunken
Peristyle ' gave access to a self-contained and nearly symmetrical system area.
centreing round a sunken area of the lustral type, surrounded by columnar
balustrades. The entrance to this, according to the original arrangement,
was by a narrow passage with gypsum paving that ran along the farther
side of the back wall of the first section of the Megaron. It flanked the
Eastern balustrade of the ' lustral area', and must have obtained its light
from the openings between the columns. Passing these, it entered, by
a second doorway, a kind of ante-room that must have served some ritual
purpose. From a doorway in the S.W. corner of this a paved descent led
by six steps to the floor of the sunken space, also originally covered with
gypsum slabbing.
Sun-dried Bricks : from Upper Story,
' Little Palace '.
1 See A. E., K/wssos, Excavations, 1905, p. 4, Fig. 1.