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)

TRI-COLUMNAR HALL AND SANCTUARY QUARTER 817

the Upper South Propylaeum through the intervening lobby has been
already described.' A group of four doorways has been restored in the

Plan, Fig. 53(5. A
through route to
the Central Court
was thus supplied
from the whole
Southern section of
this wing of the
Palace as well as
from the North-
West.

Views of parts
of the ' Tri-colum-
nar Hall' have been
given above on p.
35i,Fig.l99,andp.
717, Fig. 449, with
the floor restored in
ferro-concrete and
the fallen column-
bases replaced in
position above the
pillars and central
dividing pier of the
crypts below. As
these pillar crypts
belong to the early
elements of the

Fig. 535. Stair block in Posmox with Marks of Ascending I alace, it seems
Steps, and with Restored Column and First Flight of Central probable that the
Staircase. * , IT ., .

Columnar Hall it-
self in its later shape substantially represents a remodelling of one that had long
existed. A hint even of its former decoration has been supplied by the beauti-
ful, though fragmentary, coloured relief known as the 'Jewel Fresco'and
illustrated in the First Volume of this work,2 which was found near the floor

Sanc-
tuary
Hall.

Columns
answer-
ing to
pillars
and pier
of crypts
below.

II.

1 See above, p. 716.

2 P. of J/., i, p. 526, Fig. 383, and cf. p. 312, Fig. 231.

3 H