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546 WESTERN EXTENSION OF TOWN: HELLENIKA
than the Minoan floor-level, are well-preserved remains of a room of a
Greco-Roman house with traces of decorative wall-paintings showing upright
marbled bands of green and red.
Knossian
'Quartier
St. Ger-
main' oh
Helle-
nika
slope and
terrace
level.
M.M.I a
well.
Western Extension of Town: ' Hellenika' and later Acropolis Height.
Still farther, on the hill-side, about 35 metres South-West of the
Southern end of this fine
facade, a deep trial pit re-
vealed an angle of another
substantial house. It looks,
indeed, as if this area of the
Western slope, with its ter-
race level above, had been
a kind of ' Quartier St. Ger-
main'of the Minoan Knossos.
The name ' Hellenika'—the
' Heathen ' ruins—which at-
taches to this and extends
to the site of the neighbour-
ing Villa Ariadne, may be
rather connected with the
more superficial remains that
here exist, belonging to the
Classical period, and among
which a fine fifth-century re-
lief of Herakles and Eurys-
theus claims a first place.1
The terrace level here,
just East of the course of the
Venetian Aqueduct, is deeply
underlaid with Minoan re-
mains, going back to M. M. I a.
A well was discovered, indeed, in a dramatic way, which at the same time
illustrated the ubiquity of the evidences of Minoan enterprise on that side.
Seeking for a fresh water-supply for the garden, the vineyard a little North-
West of the Villa suggested itself to me as a likely location. The workmen
Fig. 347. Section of E. Wall of Unexplored
Mansion, showing Projection towards an Angle
of Little Palace possibly bridged over. To Left
above, Remains of Roman House.
1 This seems to have belonged to the frieze had been to serve in a much damaged state
of a Doric temple, though its final destination as a roof slab of a Roman cloaca.
than the Minoan floor-level, are well-preserved remains of a room of a
Greco-Roman house with traces of decorative wall-paintings showing upright
marbled bands of green and red.
Knossian
'Quartier
St. Ger-
main' oh
Helle-
nika
slope and
terrace
level.
M.M.I a
well.
Western Extension of Town: ' Hellenika' and later Acropolis Height.
Still farther, on the hill-side, about 35 metres South-West of the
Southern end of this fine
facade, a deep trial pit re-
vealed an angle of another
substantial house. It looks,
indeed, as if this area of the
Western slope, with its ter-
race level above, had been
a kind of ' Quartier St. Ger-
main'of the Minoan Knossos.
The name ' Hellenika'—the
' Heathen ' ruins—which at-
taches to this and extends
to the site of the neighbour-
ing Villa Ariadne, may be
rather connected with the
more superficial remains that
here exist, belonging to the
Classical period, and among
which a fine fifth-century re-
lief of Herakles and Eurys-
theus claims a first place.1
The terrace level here,
just East of the course of the
Venetian Aqueduct, is deeply
underlaid with Minoan re-
mains, going back to M. M. I a.
A well was discovered, indeed, in a dramatic way, which at the same time
illustrated the ubiquity of the evidences of Minoan enterprise on that side.
Seeking for a fresh water-supply for the garden, the vineyard a little North-
West of the Villa suggested itself to me as a likely location. The workmen
Fig. 347. Section of E. Wall of Unexplored
Mansion, showing Projection towards an Angle
of Little Palace possibly bridged over. To Left
above, Remains of Roman House.
1 This seems to have belonged to the frieze had been to serve in a much damaged state
of a Doric temple, though its final destination as a roof slab of a Roman cloaca.