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SMALL TREASURY AND 'ROOM OF STONE BENCH' 297
Fig. 194. Fresco Fragment showing Lower Part
of Robe of Processional Figure of 'Cup-bearer'
Class.
bath-room. As already shown,1 the back region that has been identified with
this specially private Quarter,—approached on this floor by a Corridor
answering to that below and named from the painted pithos at its entrance,—
afforded various intimate con-
T^} ; ' ,-""•., veniences, including two la-
trines with shafts leading to
the great stone-built drains
below. Here were some small
chambers which have been
recognized as bedrooms, and
a windowless chamber, built
over another closed room of
the same kind, which from
the clay sealings found within
and beneath this area, we have
every reason to regard as hav-
ing been later used as a
depository of Archives.
The artistic relics connected with this chamber in its earlier capacity as
a Treasury are described below in the Section relating to the Deposit
of Ivories. From the character of some of the objects, including fragments
of Miniature Frescoes with references to the Double Axe cult, a high
probability arises that the Treasury that here existed stood in relation to some
small neighbouring shrine of the tutelary Goddess.
Of this more private group of structures, the most important living-
room seems to have been that which overlooked on its South side the little
private Court known, from the engraved signs on its blocks, as the ' Court
of the Distaffs '.2 This room, owing to a stone bench having been found in
position against its West wall, has been called the ' Room of the Stone
Bench ', and an illustration has been already given of it as first excavated,
with the collapsed remains of the pavement in part reconstituted.3
Above the floor-level, near the doorway of this room, was found a piece of
painted plaster, which from its curving striped border (in black, white, and blue)
seems to have belonged to the loin-cloth of a figure similar to the youths of
the ' Procession Fresco' (Fig. 194).4 Like several of these, too, it shows
a reticulated pattern above the border, in this case enclosing conventional
Window-
less
chamber
for
Treasury
and
Archives.
Con-
nected
with
Shrine of
the
Double
Axe cult.
' Room
of Stone
Bench.'
Frag-
ments of
Proces-
sional
Fresco.
1 P. of M., i, pp. 228-30.
2 See ibid., i, p. 334, Fig. 243.
5 Ibid., i, p. 336, Fig. 244.
* From Fyfe, Painted Plaster Decoration of
Knossos, &*c, p. 128, Fig. 69. (The position
is there reversed.)
Fig. 194. Fresco Fragment showing Lower Part
of Robe of Processional Figure of 'Cup-bearer'
Class.
bath-room. As already shown,1 the back region that has been identified with
this specially private Quarter,—approached on this floor by a Corridor
answering to that below and named from the painted pithos at its entrance,—
afforded various intimate con-
T^} ; ' ,-""•., veniences, including two la-
trines with shafts leading to
the great stone-built drains
below. Here were some small
chambers which have been
recognized as bedrooms, and
a windowless chamber, built
over another closed room of
the same kind, which from
the clay sealings found within
and beneath this area, we have
every reason to regard as hav-
ing been later used as a
depository of Archives.
The artistic relics connected with this chamber in its earlier capacity as
a Treasury are described below in the Section relating to the Deposit
of Ivories. From the character of some of the objects, including fragments
of Miniature Frescoes with references to the Double Axe cult, a high
probability arises that the Treasury that here existed stood in relation to some
small neighbouring shrine of the tutelary Goddess.
Of this more private group of structures, the most important living-
room seems to have been that which overlooked on its South side the little
private Court known, from the engraved signs on its blocks, as the ' Court
of the Distaffs '.2 This room, owing to a stone bench having been found in
position against its West wall, has been called the ' Room of the Stone
Bench ', and an illustration has been already given of it as first excavated,
with the collapsed remains of the pavement in part reconstituted.3
Above the floor-level, near the doorway of this room, was found a piece of
painted plaster, which from its curving striped border (in black, white, and blue)
seems to have belonged to the loin-cloth of a figure similar to the youths of
the ' Procession Fresco' (Fig. 194).4 Like several of these, too, it shows
a reticulated pattern above the border, in this case enclosing conventional
Window-
less
chamber
for
Treasury
and
Archives.
Con-
nected
with
Shrine of
the
Double
Axe cult.
' Room
of Stone
Bench.'
Frag-
ments of
Proces-
sional
Fresco.
1 P. of M., i, pp. 228-30.
2 See ibid., i, p. 334, Fig. 243.
5 Ibid., i, p. 336, Fig. 244.
* From Fyfe, Painted Plaster Decoration of
Knossos, &*c, p. 128, Fig. 69. (The position
is there reversed.)