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COMMUNICATIONS OF GREAT HALLS WITH E. BASTION 263
This is enhanced by the remains, immediately backing it, of two massive
earlier lines of walling together with somewhat more irregular remains of
another on the steep immediately behind it. (See Fig. 165 and Suppl.
PI. XXXIV.) Of these the third wall, reckoning from the outer line, squares
best with the original exterior planning of the Palace on this side and forms,
in fact, the Eastern outer boundary of the ' North-East Insula '.
That the outer wall-lines along the lower part of the steep were thus Special
renewed at different epochs during the course of the Palace history is naturally tion,
explained by their special liability to damage by seismic agencies. The °^'enSg [°
East Bastion seems to have owed its special preservation from its position East
in the inner curve of what was a kind of recess in the slope of the hill-side.
This was marked, at any rate at the epoch to which the Bastion belonged, by
walls running East beyond the normal boundary line in that direction, and
enclosing structures the remains of which seem to have been almost entirely
grubbed up by the owners of the adjoining Turkish Chiflik and the inhabi-
tants of the neighbouring hamlet.
Immediately South of this blank the remains of the lines of outer
walling already described are seen to continue a little more widely espaced
and saving room, indeed, between the Third and Fourth wall for a corridor,
00'' '
in the Southern section of which the ' Labyrinth Fresco' came to light.1
We now know that this part of the passage-way that here runs along S.E. and
the lowest terrace of the Palace on that side was brought into direct com- sta;r's
munication with the Southern borders of the ' Domestic Quarter' by a stair- fI°m .
~ ■> Domestic
case descending past the S.E. door of the ' Hall of the Double Axes'.2 On Ouar-er
the other hand, the opposite door of that Hall stands in relation with dor of"
another staircase that would have reached the Corridor of the ' Labyrinth Lab,y:
• , ... rmth'.
Fresco somewhat farther North. It seems probable that in that direction side
a line of access existed, through some opening in the enceinte wall immedi- access
ately South of the East Bastion, to the secondary staircase on its flank n.e.
leading down to the presumed laundry basin. ■ Laun-
But the main line of communication between the principal halls of the dry'
■ 1 x steps.
'Domestic Quarter' and the egress system represented by the postern Mainline
above the East Bastion and the stepway descending it was undoubtedly domestic
along the terrace level on which they themselves lay. The ' Lower East- Quarter
West Corridor', into which these halls opened and which flanks them on the postem
North, itself takes a turn due North and finds its continuation along the by'East
0 Corridor.
same level in a passage-way that may be conveniently called the ' East
Corridor' (see Plan, Fig. 183). This, after passing through a fine terminal
1 P.ofM., i, p. 355 seqq., and Fig. 256. 2 See below, p. 328.
This is enhanced by the remains, immediately backing it, of two massive
earlier lines of walling together with somewhat more irregular remains of
another on the steep immediately behind it. (See Fig. 165 and Suppl.
PI. XXXIV.) Of these the third wall, reckoning from the outer line, squares
best with the original exterior planning of the Palace on this side and forms,
in fact, the Eastern outer boundary of the ' North-East Insula '.
That the outer wall-lines along the lower part of the steep were thus Special
renewed at different epochs during the course of the Palace history is naturally tion,
explained by their special liability to damage by seismic agencies. The °^'enSg [°
East Bastion seems to have owed its special preservation from its position East
in the inner curve of what was a kind of recess in the slope of the hill-side.
This was marked, at any rate at the epoch to which the Bastion belonged, by
walls running East beyond the normal boundary line in that direction, and
enclosing structures the remains of which seem to have been almost entirely
grubbed up by the owners of the adjoining Turkish Chiflik and the inhabi-
tants of the neighbouring hamlet.
Immediately South of this blank the remains of the lines of outer
walling already described are seen to continue a little more widely espaced
and saving room, indeed, between the Third and Fourth wall for a corridor,
00'' '
in the Southern section of which the ' Labyrinth Fresco' came to light.1
We now know that this part of the passage-way that here runs along S.E. and
the lowest terrace of the Palace on that side was brought into direct com- sta;r's
munication with the Southern borders of the ' Domestic Quarter' by a stair- fI°m .
~ ■> Domestic
case descending past the S.E. door of the ' Hall of the Double Axes'.2 On Ouar-er
the other hand, the opposite door of that Hall stands in relation with dor of"
another staircase that would have reached the Corridor of the ' Labyrinth Lab,y:
• , ... rmth'.
Fresco somewhat farther North. It seems probable that in that direction side
a line of access existed, through some opening in the enceinte wall immedi- access
ately South of the East Bastion, to the secondary staircase on its flank n.e.
leading down to the presumed laundry basin. ■ Laun-
But the main line of communication between the principal halls of the dry'
■ 1 x steps.
'Domestic Quarter' and the egress system represented by the postern Mainline
above the East Bastion and the stepway descending it was undoubtedly domestic
along the terrace level on which they themselves lay. The ' Lower East- Quarter
West Corridor', into which these halls opened and which flanks them on the postem
North, itself takes a turn due North and finds its continuation along the by'East
0 Corridor.
same level in a passage-way that may be conveniently called the ' East
Corridor' (see Plan, Fig. 183). This, after passing through a fine terminal
1 P.ofM., i, p. 355 seqq., and Fig. 256. 2 See below, p. 328.