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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 3): The great transitional age in the northern and eastern sections of the Palace — London, 1930

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N.E. CORNER OF FAQADE 5

A terminus a quo for the dating of this intrusive block of buildings was L. M. II
supplied by the remains of pottery found under the second and third thres- unAe?
holds (from the South) of the doorways leading down to this Ante-chamber thres-
from the borders of the Central Court, which in addition to some L. M. I ante-
fragments contained others of the best ' Palace Style' belonging to the early room'
part of L. M. II.1 These doorways preserved the line of the outer facade
and abutted on the slabs of the same limestone pavement that occurred
elsewhere on this side of the Central Court. This pavement, of which the
best preserved remains lay, as already noticed,2 in the North-West angle of
the Court, was itself clearly contemporary with the earliest elements of the
restored building. In this angle, as has been shown, it had displaced an
earlier M. M. Ill pavement immediately superposed on a well-marked
stratum the latest elements of which belonged to M. M. II and which itself
immediately overlay the Neolithic—another proof of the levelling away of
the intermediate strata on this part of the hill in order to layout the Central
Court and the adjoining regions of the Minoan Palace.3 In this stratum, in
a M. M. II b medium, was found the lower part of the diorite Middle Empire
statuette of User.4

In the same layer, at depths varying from 50 to 70 centimetres, there Cistern
came to light two small stone drains which converged on a common channel drains,
running East to a larger stone-built tributary of the main ' Cloaca' of the
Central Court (see Fig. 9). The more Southern5 of the two small conduits,
running from the South-West, had been cut off by the front line of the Ante-
chamber of the ' Room of the Throne'. The more Northern proceeded
from a cistern bordering the North-West corner of the earlier facade. In it
occurred M. M. II b pottery including a polychrome cup. The cistern for
which it provided an overflow channel had been, no doubt, filled by rain-
water from the roof-terraces of the earlier facade line.

On the Northern border of the Ante-room of the ' Room of the Throne ' N.E.
to which the later frontage line here belonged, the older line—blocked up to 0foid
this point by these intrusive structures of the concluding- Palace period— facade

1 J t t & r and early

reappears for a short distance. Its plinth and orthostats, however, almost at 'insula'.
once curve Westwards forming a rounded outline which, as already observed,
corresponds with what seems to have been a similar feature at the diagonally

1 1913 tests 59, 60. was better preserved, was 30 cm. deep and

2 P. of M., ii, Pt. II, p. 800, Fig. 522. 12 cm. wide. The upper border ofits sideslabs

3 See P. of M., ii, Pt. I, p. 5. was 50 cm. beneath the surface, that of the

4 Ibid., i, p. 286 seqq. other drain 70 cm.

5 The more Southern of these drains, which
 
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