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ADJOINING BATH-ROOM 381
' mosaiko' floor below, which here runs up to the edge of the balustrade.
To the corner beyond has been transferred the clay ' tub ' with a painted Painted
spiral decoration, originally found partly filled with lime,1 and blocking the l^m. i«.
entrance of the passage to the South-West of the room. Its original posi-
tion may well have been in the adjoining Bath-room where it could have
served to contain a reserve supply of water. It is to be noted that the
dark brown spiraliform design of this vessel is in harmony with the spiral
friezes that mark the L. M. I a epoch of restoration on this and the adjoining
halls and passages. It affords another instance of the manner in which
ceramic decorations reflected the prevalent style and motives of the frescoes
on the walls. The ' unities'—to recall the old-fashioned phrase—were as
carefully preserved in the furniture of Minoan chambers as in the salons of
the First Empire.2
Bath-room of ' Queen's Megaron'.
The little bath chamber on which this balustrade opens was entered on Bath-
the level through a doorway flanked by a pillar and controlled from within, < oueen's
which gave a short passage-way round a further projecting spur of the Mesa_
balustrade. The corner pillar still supported carbonized remains of its
wooden column,3 and this has been restored with flutings in relief, after the
model supplied by the more or less contemporary impressions of columns
beside the lustral area of the Little Palace.4 This fluted type of shaft, as
noted above,5 was also prevalent in the Domestic Quarter of the Palace and
its borders.
The interior of the chamber, like the adjoining section of the ' Megaron', Remains
had also been used at a late date for the storage of lime. Its gypsum dado frieze™
slabs (see Plan and Elevation, Fig. 253, a, b) were for the most part well pre-
served, and above them ran the remains of massive carbonized beams.
Covering this, but also extending above the upper border of the beams,
remains of a painted spiraliform frieze were preserved in position in the
North-West corner, and still more fully on the North wall. The spirals
themselves contained elegant rosettes—outlined in red on a grey ground,
with half-rosettes of the same kind in the intervals. The frieze reproduced
1 See above, p. 356. a later artistic fashion.
2 It should at the same time be remem- 3 The charcoal remains as found were
bered that the fresco decoration of walls often roughly circular, about 31 cm. in their greatest
remained in position at a time when ceramic diameter.
remains, especially as illustrated by the smaller * P. of M., ii, Pt. II, p. 520 seqq.
vases found on the floor beneath, represented 5 See above, pp. 322, 323, &c.
' mosaiko' floor below, which here runs up to the edge of the balustrade.
To the corner beyond has been transferred the clay ' tub ' with a painted Painted
spiral decoration, originally found partly filled with lime,1 and blocking the l^m. i«.
entrance of the passage to the South-West of the room. Its original posi-
tion may well have been in the adjoining Bath-room where it could have
served to contain a reserve supply of water. It is to be noted that the
dark brown spiraliform design of this vessel is in harmony with the spiral
friezes that mark the L. M. I a epoch of restoration on this and the adjoining
halls and passages. It affords another instance of the manner in which
ceramic decorations reflected the prevalent style and motives of the frescoes
on the walls. The ' unities'—to recall the old-fashioned phrase—were as
carefully preserved in the furniture of Minoan chambers as in the salons of
the First Empire.2
Bath-room of ' Queen's Megaron'.
The little bath chamber on which this balustrade opens was entered on Bath-
the level through a doorway flanked by a pillar and controlled from within, < oueen's
which gave a short passage-way round a further projecting spur of the Mesa_
balustrade. The corner pillar still supported carbonized remains of its
wooden column,3 and this has been restored with flutings in relief, after the
model supplied by the more or less contemporary impressions of columns
beside the lustral area of the Little Palace.4 This fluted type of shaft, as
noted above,5 was also prevalent in the Domestic Quarter of the Palace and
its borders.
The interior of the chamber, like the adjoining section of the ' Megaron', Remains
had also been used at a late date for the storage of lime. Its gypsum dado frieze™
slabs (see Plan and Elevation, Fig. 253, a, b) were for the most part well pre-
served, and above them ran the remains of massive carbonized beams.
Covering this, but also extending above the upper border of the beams,
remains of a painted spiraliform frieze were preserved in position in the
North-West corner, and still more fully on the North wall. The spirals
themselves contained elegant rosettes—outlined in red on a grey ground,
with half-rosettes of the same kind in the intervals. The frieze reproduced
1 See above, p. 356. a later artistic fashion.
2 It should at the same time be remem- 3 The charcoal remains as found were
bered that the fresco decoration of walls often roughly circular, about 31 cm. in their greatest
remained in position at a time when ceramic diameter.
remains, especially as illustrated by the smaller * P. of M., ii, Pt. II, p. 520 seqq.
vases found on the floor beneath, represented 5 See above, pp. 322, 323, &c.