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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STEATITE JAR WITH SPIRAL RELIEFS

of the best pieces of stratification to be found on the whole of the Palace
site. An ideal sketch of this is given in Fig. 12, p. 24, below.

The latest level here reached of post-seismic M. M. Hid date ex-
tended over this whole area and, from the character of the relics found on

Stratifica-
tion in
area N. of
'Pillar
Base-
ment '.

Fig. 10. Black Steatite Jar from Early Floor of Inner Basement.

it, must have remained in use to the very end of the Palace and the closing
days of L. M. II. The same continuity is observable in many of the ' West
Magazines', where late ' Medallion pithoi' stand side by side with L. M. I
and L. M. II jars.

In the space, again, immmediately North of the room with the central
pillar—which lies at a somewhat lower level owing to the slope of the ground
and seems indeed to have been approached by two descending steps—slabs
of gypsum also appear of the same fine alabaster-like quality, such as is
characteristic of the earlier palatial stages. Here, too, a careful exploration