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)

MASSIVE LINES OF EASTERN WALLS

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gradually widening out on this side. Four main lines of parallel walling—-
the two first a good deal inclined outwards—are, in fact, visible by the East

Fig. 165. View of Eastern Palace Enceinte and Bastion, looking South.

Bastion as shown in Fig. 165, and sections of these can be traced at intervals
along a great part of the slope. (See, too, Suppl. PI. XXXIV.)

It can hardly be doubted that a postern gate had existed in relation