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)

EVIDENCE AS TO DATE OF STEPS

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The steps, of which four were preserved, are of peculiar hard, rather
rough limestone, identical in its character with the material used in the later
flight of stairs that descends East from the ' Upper East-West Corridor'.
This correspondence is of interest from a chronological point of view, since

Fig. 529. Sketch showing East Side-Slabs of Cists and Lining Slabs of Corridor
below Later Vestibule. By Theodore Fyfe.

in the filling beneath the East stairs L. M. I a pottery occurred 1 together with
a considerable admixture of M. M. Ill b sherds, but nothing later. It looks,
therefore, as if both structures belonged to the very beginning of the First
Late Minoan Period. This confirms the evidence already afforded by the

1 Numerous remains of vessels, including
' flower-pot' vases and numerous finely con-
toured cups with the L. M. I a grass pattern,
were found in the filling beneath the East
stairs. But there were also fragments of
M. M. \\\b ' medallion '////few", pedestalled

vessels with a bossed centre, the prototypes of
those found at Phylakopi {Phylakopi, pp. 117,
118, Fig. no), and characteristic M. M. Ill
pots with the drip ornament. The blocks are
incised with a square mark.