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SECOND COLUMN-BASE OF PORCH
Dis-
covery of
second
column-
base
within
Porch.
Green
schist
slabs of
landing
and
gypsum
threshold.
' Throne
Room'
system
N. of
Porch
later
construc-
tion.
<r21 ->
O
A.
1-5Z
Fig. 530.
BASE OF
STORED.
Intermediate Column-
Stepped Porch ', Re-
traces of intermediate occupation between the closing of M. M. Ill cists and
the construction of the steps above.
Between the beginning of the second and the farther edge of the fourth
step is inserted a column-base 1-15 metres in diameter, and itself rising from
a square base 1-35 metres wide. This
column-base would have answered to
a column about 5-75 metres high.
In the course of the supplementary
explorations of 1922 there came to light,
in a basement space below, a segment and
part of the lower square base of another
gypsum column-base, which finds its natural
position between the ninth and eleventh-
step. When restored (see Fig. 530) it
showed a diameter of about 0-85 centi-
metre, answering to a column 4-25 metres
high, which would correspond with the
height that a second smaller column, start-
ing from its higher level, should have at-
tained beneath the roof of the Porch.
In the basement area, answering to the landing of the steps, were heaped
together numerous greenish-blue schist slabs of the kind used in the interior
corridorsof the restored building, which had formed a base for its cement facing,
and others occurred within the Northern of the two door-openings. A gypsum
threshold slab belonging to this was also found, and the general arrangement
of the entrance doorways could be fixed with approximate accuracy. A
restored view of the steps, also showing the first flight of the ' Central Stairs '
above, is given in Fig. 531.
In the area beyond the Northern boundary wall of the landing of the
' Stepped Porch ' and Vestibule, the remains of the original scheme of recon-
struction in the epoch immediately following the great Earthquake has been
entirely destroyed by drastic alterations carried out in the last period of the
Palace. It was at that time, as is clearly shown from the character of the wall-
paintings and other evidence, that the ' Room of the Throne ' was built with
its ante-chamber and dependencies,1 and the construction here on the lower
level of the double hall, evidently intended for important pontificial cere-
monies, involved a more revolutionary treatment of the earlier facade line
1 The ' Room of the Throne' and its Ante-chamber, &c, will be described and illustrated in
P. of M., iii.
SECOND COLUMN-BASE OF PORCH
Dis-
covery of
second
column-
base
within
Porch.
Green
schist
slabs of
landing
and
gypsum
threshold.
' Throne
Room'
system
N. of
Porch
later
construc-
tion.
<r21 ->
O
A.
1-5Z
Fig. 530.
BASE OF
STORED.
Intermediate Column-
Stepped Porch ', Re-
traces of intermediate occupation between the closing of M. M. Ill cists and
the construction of the steps above.
Between the beginning of the second and the farther edge of the fourth
step is inserted a column-base 1-15 metres in diameter, and itself rising from
a square base 1-35 metres wide. This
column-base would have answered to
a column about 5-75 metres high.
In the course of the supplementary
explorations of 1922 there came to light,
in a basement space below, a segment and
part of the lower square base of another
gypsum column-base, which finds its natural
position between the ninth and eleventh-
step. When restored (see Fig. 530) it
showed a diameter of about 0-85 centi-
metre, answering to a column 4-25 metres
high, which would correspond with the
height that a second smaller column, start-
ing from its higher level, should have at-
tained beneath the roof of the Porch.
In the basement area, answering to the landing of the steps, were heaped
together numerous greenish-blue schist slabs of the kind used in the interior
corridorsof the restored building, which had formed a base for its cement facing,
and others occurred within the Northern of the two door-openings. A gypsum
threshold slab belonging to this was also found, and the general arrangement
of the entrance doorways could be fixed with approximate accuracy. A
restored view of the steps, also showing the first flight of the ' Central Stairs '
above, is given in Fig. 531.
In the area beyond the Northern boundary wall of the landing of the
' Stepped Porch ' and Vestibule, the remains of the original scheme of recon-
struction in the epoch immediately following the great Earthquake has been
entirely destroyed by drastic alterations carried out in the last period of the
Palace. It was at that time, as is clearly shown from the character of the wall-
paintings and other evidence, that the ' Room of the Throne ' was built with
its ante-chamber and dependencies,1 and the construction here on the lower
level of the double hall, evidently intended for important pontificial cere-
monies, involved a more revolutionary treatment of the earlier facade line
1 The ' Room of the Throne' and its Ante-chamber, &c, will be described and illustrated in
P. of M., iii.