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THE 'LOBBY OF THE WOODEN POSTS' 271
Since, in the present case, the natural access to the inner store below
was by the doorway that opened into the larger space containing the stone
pier, it seems probable that some kind of ladder was set up on that side,
between the pier and the North wall.
' Lobby of the Wooden Posts' and adjoining ' East Portico'.
The Southernmost section of this symmetrically arranged structural
block (see Plan, Fig. 183) has been referred to in the First Volume of this
work as the ' Room of the Wooden Posts', from the carbonized remains of
such visible at intervals on its Northern and Southern wall at the time of
excavation.1 It formed a kind of lobby or ante-room to the adjoining initial 'Lobby
section of the East Corridor, at the point where it turned North from the Wooden
Lower E.-W. Corridor, and it gave light to this by means of a balustrade. The os s'
pier—possibly combined with a column—that formed the Southern termina-
tion of the balustrade had supported a large block that belonged to the
upper system on this side. As this block had served as an early landmark on Block
the East slope, being one of the few remains of the original structure visible t,aius_
at the time when its excavation was first undertaken, it had at first been tr.ade
pier
supported at the exact level in which it was found.2 The more complete raised to
reconstitution of the upper story elements in this area undertaken in 1928 pof/tion.
made it advisable, however, to restore the block, with the underlying lime-
stone slabs on which it rested, to the level that it had originally occupied.
A photographic view of the balustrade thus restored and showing the
cavities formed by the carbonized posts fitted in with ferro-concrete, is
included in Fig. 185.
These posts, with the cross-beams and the intervening panels of
masonry, give a very good idea of the builder's craft at the beginning of
the Third Middle Minoan Period. But it has to be borne in mind that the Charac-
tcristic
lower part of the structure, up to the height of about 2 metres, was masked m. m.iii
by gypsum dado slabs and the upper part with painted plaster. tirober-
A curious feature of this lobby was the symmetrical reversing of the sym-
structural arrangement on its two sides, so that the pillar of the balustrade metnc.al
0 * reversing
was at its Southern extremity in the one case and to the North in the other. of\v. and
The interval thus left in the Western line gave access to the ' East trades.S"
Corridor' above referred to. That of the Eastern line opened on an
elongated space which proved to be a Portico, overlooking a terrace edge
in front.3 This arrangement incidentally served to let in light both to the
1 P. of M., i, p. 360 seqq. 3 The original plan of this part of the site
2 See ibid., p. 361, Fig. 261. (incorporated in Plan B at the end of Vol. ii)
Since, in the present case, the natural access to the inner store below
was by the doorway that opened into the larger space containing the stone
pier, it seems probable that some kind of ladder was set up on that side,
between the pier and the North wall.
' Lobby of the Wooden Posts' and adjoining ' East Portico'.
The Southernmost section of this symmetrically arranged structural
block (see Plan, Fig. 183) has been referred to in the First Volume of this
work as the ' Room of the Wooden Posts', from the carbonized remains of
such visible at intervals on its Northern and Southern wall at the time of
excavation.1 It formed a kind of lobby or ante-room to the adjoining initial 'Lobby
section of the East Corridor, at the point where it turned North from the Wooden
Lower E.-W. Corridor, and it gave light to this by means of a balustrade. The os s'
pier—possibly combined with a column—that formed the Southern termina-
tion of the balustrade had supported a large block that belonged to the
upper system on this side. As this block had served as an early landmark on Block
the East slope, being one of the few remains of the original structure visible t,aius_
at the time when its excavation was first undertaken, it had at first been tr.ade
pier
supported at the exact level in which it was found.2 The more complete raised to
reconstitution of the upper story elements in this area undertaken in 1928 pof/tion.
made it advisable, however, to restore the block, with the underlying lime-
stone slabs on which it rested, to the level that it had originally occupied.
A photographic view of the balustrade thus restored and showing the
cavities formed by the carbonized posts fitted in with ferro-concrete, is
included in Fig. 185.
These posts, with the cross-beams and the intervening panels of
masonry, give a very good idea of the builder's craft at the beginning of
the Third Middle Minoan Period. But it has to be borne in mind that the Charac-
tcristic
lower part of the structure, up to the height of about 2 metres, was masked m. m.iii
by gypsum dado slabs and the upper part with painted plaster. tirober-
A curious feature of this lobby was the symmetrical reversing of the sym-
structural arrangement on its two sides, so that the pillar of the balustrade metnc.al
0 * reversing
was at its Southern extremity in the one case and to the North in the other. of\v. and
The interval thus left in the Western line gave access to the ' East trades.S"
Corridor' above referred to. That of the Eastern line opened on an
elongated space which proved to be a Portico, overlooking a terrace edge
in front.3 This arrangement incidentally served to let in light both to the
1 P. of M., i, p. 360 seqq. 3 The original plan of this part of the site
2 See ibid., p. 361, Fig. 261. (incorporated in Plan B at the end of Vol. ii)