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PARABOLIC RUNNEL S. OF 'DOMESTIC QUARTER' 245
with
similar
runnel,
S. of
Domestic
Quarter.
Further Contemporary Remains of Runnels with Parabolic Curves
in Connexion with Open Stepway South of Domestic Quarter.
This conclusion is fully corroborated by a parallel discovery made in Stepway
connexion with another open stepway. The structure in question is a great
exterior flight of limestone
stairs, traces of which are to
be seen running up the slope
immediately South of the
Domestic Quarter, and which
finally landed on the ascend-
ing gangway or ramp that
entered the Central Court
at its South-West angle.1 The
base slabs of two of the steps
of this are seen in situ im-
mediately East of the little
' South-East Bath-room', and,
beside them, the remains of
an identically constructed
stone channel (see the photo-
graphic view in Fig. 171).
These steps were 1'80 metres
in width, or about double the mean width of those of the East Bastion, and the
stone channel with its curving floor was correspondingly of larger dimensions.
For the chronological place of the stepway with which this remarkable
feature was connected we have, happily, full and convincing data. In its
upward course, immediately beyond the spot where the remains of the stone
runnel are preserved, it passes over the adjoining M. M. Ill structures that
were 'earthed under' after the great seismic catastrophe that took place
towards the close of that epoch. The vases in this section of the older
building were themselves left intact in the position in which they had been
covered over. These included a very elegant painted clay bath with
sprays of reeds in the little bath-room,2 and the remarkable false-spouted
jars in the Magazine beyond, while in the store-chest at the side of these
stood the jars with the beautiful designs of clumps of Madonna lilies, white
on the lilac-brown glaze ground.3
Fig. 171. Photographic View showing Remains
of Parabolic Runnel by Open Stepway South of
Domestic Quarter.
Over-
lying the
M. M. Ill
Maga-
zines.
1 See General Ground Plari B at the end of
Vol. ii, Pt. II.
2 P. of M., i, pp. 579, 580, and Fig. 424;
and see, too, below, p. 386.
3 Ibid., pp. 576-9, and Figs. 420, 421.
with
similar
runnel,
S. of
Domestic
Quarter.
Further Contemporary Remains of Runnels with Parabolic Curves
in Connexion with Open Stepway South of Domestic Quarter.
This conclusion is fully corroborated by a parallel discovery made in Stepway
connexion with another open stepway. The structure in question is a great
exterior flight of limestone
stairs, traces of which are to
be seen running up the slope
immediately South of the
Domestic Quarter, and which
finally landed on the ascend-
ing gangway or ramp that
entered the Central Court
at its South-West angle.1 The
base slabs of two of the steps
of this are seen in situ im-
mediately East of the little
' South-East Bath-room', and,
beside them, the remains of
an identically constructed
stone channel (see the photo-
graphic view in Fig. 171).
These steps were 1'80 metres
in width, or about double the mean width of those of the East Bastion, and the
stone channel with its curving floor was correspondingly of larger dimensions.
For the chronological place of the stepway with which this remarkable
feature was connected we have, happily, full and convincing data. In its
upward course, immediately beyond the spot where the remains of the stone
runnel are preserved, it passes over the adjoining M. M. Ill structures that
were 'earthed under' after the great seismic catastrophe that took place
towards the close of that epoch. The vases in this section of the older
building were themselves left intact in the position in which they had been
covered over. These included a very elegant painted clay bath with
sprays of reeds in the little bath-room,2 and the remarkable false-spouted
jars in the Magazine beyond, while in the store-chest at the side of these
stood the jars with the beautiful designs of clumps of Madonna lilies, white
on the lilac-brown glaze ground.3
Fig. 171. Photographic View showing Remains
of Parabolic Runnel by Open Stepway South of
Domestic Quarter.
Over-
lying the
M. M. Ill
Maga-
zines.
1 See General Ground Plari B at the end of
Vol. ii, Pt. II.
2 P. of M., i, pp. 579, 580, and Fig. 424;
and see, too, below, p. 386.
3 Ibid., pp. 576-9, and Figs. 420, 421.