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INDICATIONS OF SANCTUARY HALL 599
tion, combined with the very solid material, contrasts indeed with the ordinary
dado slabs of gypsum and must in any case be regarded as of early date.
Indications of Sanctuary Hall.
In the same deposit, with the remains of the stone frieze and the other Stone
architectural fragments, occurred the columnar pedestal of a lamp, executed £"sui
in a kind of purple gypsum, with a winding spiraliform ornament like that from
of the ' triglyphs' of the frieze. With this there also came to light a large deposit,
stone basin of the same material, resembling that found behind the ' Room
of the Throne' described in a subsequent Section. It may have served
some lustral or ' baptismal' function connected with a small sanctuary that
seems to have stood in the neighbouring area.
Attention has already been called in the previous Volume to the Architec-
discovery, beneath the floors of a series of cists in the Thirteenth Magazine, ^escoes
and in a pure M. M. Ill medium, of remains of frescoes, some of them from
depicting parts of what was clearly a pillar sanctuary with Double Axes stuck xhir-
into the capitals and columns and sacral horns on the coping between them. ^""'.^
With these were other fragments of painted stucco relating to the bull- zine.
grappling sports held in honour of the Goddess, and parts of crowds of ^""pen-
spectators, identical, though on a slightly larger scale, with those of the in«s of
' Miniature Frescoes'. Although these wall-paintings, from the scale on sanc-
which they were executed, would themselves have been appropriate to some tuary'
moderate-sized compartment, the architectural structures to which they refer
were quite different from the typical Minoan shrines, which are clearly shown
to have been of quite small dimensions. They were, rather, large halls with
columnar openings on a Court.
Remarkable illustrations of buildings reproducing the same features niustra-
have now been supplied by the remains of frescoes discovered by Dr. p.,fn,jn„s
Rodenwaldtl in the Mep-aron at Mycenae and by those due to the supple- ofbuild-
in"s from
mentary researches of the British School at Athens under the direction of Mycenae.
Mr. Wace.2 The comparative views given in Fig. 373, c, d, of the buildings
depicted on the Mycenae frescoes, and the structural features shown on the
fragments from beneath the cists of the Thirteenth Magazine, will sufficiently
demonstrate that they belong to architectural facades of a similar kind.3
Fries d. Megarons von JMykenai, p. 23 XLII, XLIII (described by Miss W. Lamb),
seqq.; Palast und Kampfszene and Beilage, 3 In a somewhat later and cruder form we
n. The first discovery of fresco fragments, also recognize structural and decorative forms
here a good deal burnt, was made by Tsountas taken from the same cycle in some of the
{UpaKTiKa, 1886, and 'Ecp. 'Apx- 1887), PI. II. painted plaster fragments from Orchomenos.
B.S.A., 1925, p. 247 seqq. and Plates H. Pulle, Orchomenos, PI. XXVIII.
tion, combined with the very solid material, contrasts indeed with the ordinary
dado slabs of gypsum and must in any case be regarded as of early date.
Indications of Sanctuary Hall.
In the same deposit, with the remains of the stone frieze and the other Stone
architectural fragments, occurred the columnar pedestal of a lamp, executed £"sui
in a kind of purple gypsum, with a winding spiraliform ornament like that from
of the ' triglyphs' of the frieze. With this there also came to light a large deposit,
stone basin of the same material, resembling that found behind the ' Room
of the Throne' described in a subsequent Section. It may have served
some lustral or ' baptismal' function connected with a small sanctuary that
seems to have stood in the neighbouring area.
Attention has already been called in the previous Volume to the Architec-
discovery, beneath the floors of a series of cists in the Thirteenth Magazine, ^escoes
and in a pure M. M. Ill medium, of remains of frescoes, some of them from
depicting parts of what was clearly a pillar sanctuary with Double Axes stuck xhir-
into the capitals and columns and sacral horns on the coping between them. ^""'.^
With these were other fragments of painted stucco relating to the bull- zine.
grappling sports held in honour of the Goddess, and parts of crowds of ^""pen-
spectators, identical, though on a slightly larger scale, with those of the in«s of
' Miniature Frescoes'. Although these wall-paintings, from the scale on sanc-
which they were executed, would themselves have been appropriate to some tuary'
moderate-sized compartment, the architectural structures to which they refer
were quite different from the typical Minoan shrines, which are clearly shown
to have been of quite small dimensions. They were, rather, large halls with
columnar openings on a Court.
Remarkable illustrations of buildings reproducing the same features niustra-
have now been supplied by the remains of frescoes discovered by Dr. p.,fn,jn„s
Rodenwaldtl in the Mep-aron at Mycenae and by those due to the supple- ofbuild-
in"s from
mentary researches of the British School at Athens under the direction of Mycenae.
Mr. Wace.2 The comparative views given in Fig. 373, c, d, of the buildings
depicted on the Mycenae frescoes, and the structural features shown on the
fragments from beneath the cists of the Thirteenth Magazine, will sufficiently
demonstrate that they belong to architectural facades of a similar kind.3
Fries d. Megarons von JMykenai, p. 23 XLII, XLIII (described by Miss W. Lamb),
seqq.; Palast und Kampfszene and Beilage, 3 In a somewhat later and cruder form we
n. The first discovery of fresco fragments, also recognize structural and decorative forms
here a good deal burnt, was made by Tsountas taken from the same cycle in some of the
{UpaKTiKa, 1886, and 'Ecp. 'Apx- 1887), PI. II. painted plaster fragments from Orchomenos.
B.S.A., 1925, p. 247 seqq. and Plates H. Pulle, Orchomenos, PI. XXVIII.