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EARLIER ENTRANCE PASSAGE BELOW LATER 679
position, which through its entrance commanded the line of the two main
doorways and that leading into the inner Corridor, this little apartment was
well suited to serve as a lodge for a porter or guardian.
The larger room into which it directly opened suggested more impor- Central
tant functions. Here, indeed, we may believe that on public occasions the state re-
Priest-Kincr himself, enthroned within, acknowledged the salutes of those who ceP',ons
& » o —place
defiled through the opposite wing of the Porch on their way to what, on for
every ground, we must regard as the State Entrance of the Palace. The
Eastern portal through which privileged visitors and inmates of the Palace
made their way led into the noble processional Corridor beyond that wound
round both to the South Propylaeum and, beyond it, to another main Corridor
of the building leading up from the Southern Porch to the Central Court.
The bay of the central chamber opposite the Western doorway was Probable
itself admirably adapted for the base of a throne or seat of honour like that ^rrae.
seen in the Room of the Throne1 of the Central Court, and in the similarly
named room of the Megaron Court at Mycenae,2 though in these cases the
position was at right angles to the Court. In the present case, however, the
facing position as regards the West Court would have enabled the Papa Re
of Knossos to manifest himself on occasion to the gaze of assembled crowds.
Earlier Entrance Passage beneath Later.
A doorway, a metre wide, in the N.E. corner of this State Room led into Earlier
the interior passage running South known, from the wall-paintings found passage
within it, and partly clinging to its walls, as the ' Corridor of the Procession '. beneath
The width of this Corridor was 3-34 metres, and, as already pointed oiit,:i it
had been preceded by an earlier gangway about a metre narrower. The
date of the construction of the later wall on the left was marked by the
occurrence in its inner interstices of M. M. Ill b fragments, but many of its
limestone blocks showed very early signs, and had in all probability belonged
to the construction of the earlier wall, which seems thus to have been shifted
back East about half a metre. Explorations made beneath the level of the
later pavement of the West wing of the Corridor brought out, as already
mentioned,4 clear traces of the West wall of the original passage in the
159, 1G0) shows only a single interior room, dais for the seat of honour is placed at the
and the conjectural limits on the West side back of a section of the ' Megaron ', separated
are only approximately right. off by two columnar balustrades, between
1 See Vol. iii. which the occupant of the seat would have
2 Wace, B. S. A., xxv, p. 186 seqq. and been seen facing from the body of the hall
PI. XXXIIT a. In the case of the ' House of (see p. 394, Fig. 225).
the Chancel Screen ' at Knossos the low stone 3 See p. 668 seqq. 4 See p. 669.
position, which through its entrance commanded the line of the two main
doorways and that leading into the inner Corridor, this little apartment was
well suited to serve as a lodge for a porter or guardian.
The larger room into which it directly opened suggested more impor- Central
tant functions. Here, indeed, we may believe that on public occasions the state re-
Priest-Kincr himself, enthroned within, acknowledged the salutes of those who ceP',ons
& » o —place
defiled through the opposite wing of the Porch on their way to what, on for
every ground, we must regard as the State Entrance of the Palace. The
Eastern portal through which privileged visitors and inmates of the Palace
made their way led into the noble processional Corridor beyond that wound
round both to the South Propylaeum and, beyond it, to another main Corridor
of the building leading up from the Southern Porch to the Central Court.
The bay of the central chamber opposite the Western doorway was Probable
itself admirably adapted for the base of a throne or seat of honour like that ^rrae.
seen in the Room of the Throne1 of the Central Court, and in the similarly
named room of the Megaron Court at Mycenae,2 though in these cases the
position was at right angles to the Court. In the present case, however, the
facing position as regards the West Court would have enabled the Papa Re
of Knossos to manifest himself on occasion to the gaze of assembled crowds.
Earlier Entrance Passage beneath Later.
A doorway, a metre wide, in the N.E. corner of this State Room led into Earlier
the interior passage running South known, from the wall-paintings found passage
within it, and partly clinging to its walls, as the ' Corridor of the Procession '. beneath
The width of this Corridor was 3-34 metres, and, as already pointed oiit,:i it
had been preceded by an earlier gangway about a metre narrower. The
date of the construction of the later wall on the left was marked by the
occurrence in its inner interstices of M. M. Ill b fragments, but many of its
limestone blocks showed very early signs, and had in all probability belonged
to the construction of the earlier wall, which seems thus to have been shifted
back East about half a metre. Explorations made beneath the level of the
later pavement of the West wing of the Corridor brought out, as already
mentioned,4 clear traces of the West wall of the original passage in the
159, 1G0) shows only a single interior room, dais for the seat of honour is placed at the
and the conjectural limits on the West side back of a section of the ' Megaron ', separated
are only approximately right. off by two columnar balustrades, between
1 See Vol. iii. which the occupant of the seat would have
2 Wace, B. S. A., xxv, p. 186 seqq. and been seen facing from the body of the hall
PI. XXXIIT a. In the case of the ' House of (see p. 394, Fig. 225).
the Chancel Screen ' at Knossos the low stone 3 See p. 668 seqq. 4 See p. 669.