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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GYPSUM STUMPS OF EARLIER DADO

Gypsum
stumps
of dado
of earlier
corridor.

where the orthostatic system of the Palace wall comes to an end. Just
South of this the beginning of a line of gypsum stumps came to light repre-
senting a series of dado slabs that had belonged to an interior wall running
South, 48 cm. West of the line of the orthostatic wall (see Plan, Fig. 425).
These, no doubt, formed the continuation of the arrangement implied by the

Early

doorway

and

corridor

both

narrower.

Fig. 425. Plan of Section of West Entrance showing Lines of Earlier Dado and

of ^YALLS of Narrower Passage.

cutting in the gypsum orthostat above described, and showed that the system
to which they belonged had taken a turn of the width indicated. Part of an
earlier wall-line, to which the dado stumps belonged, was also found, incor-
porated in the later pavement. Traces of these stumps of dado slabs
were followed South, moreover, to a point immediately within the Eastern
jamb of the existing entrance to the ' Corridor of the Procession \J The
entrance system from the original Porch seems to have been only slightly
South of the later line of doorways.

The evidence at our disposal, as will be seen from the Plan, Fig. 425,
shows that the doorway on which the early dado line abutted was itself
narrower than the later structure. The space between this dado and the

1 Just beyond the Southern end of this
jamb was found a thicker fragment of gypsum
probably belonging to the pavement of the
earlier Corridor, which, as appears from the

underlying slab brought to light a little farther
South (see p. 669), seems to have been wholly
of gypsum.