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 2,2): Town houses in Knossos of the new era and restored West Palace Section (London, 1928)

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LITTLE PALACE': THE LUSTRAL AREA

Later used
as fetish
shrine.

This ' lustral area' (see Plan and Section, Figs. 321, 322) was in the
Period of Preoccupation used as an actual shrine, and the 'fetish' figures of



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Fig. 321. Plan of Lustral Area of 'Little Palace'. By Christian C. T. Doll.

natural stone found here throw a strange light on what may be termed
a recrudescence of Minoan paganism (see above, p. 346, Fig. 198).

The blocking, then carried out, of the spaces between the wooden
columns on the side of the small gallery has resulted in the preservation of
an interesting record of the character of the columns as set here by the
L. M. I builders (Fig. 323). The impressions of the half-columns embedded