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TOILETTE ROOM' AND LATRINE AT BACK
387
There was, however, a sink in a ' Toilette Room' at the back, about a
score of paces distant, and not improbably a water supply from the cistern
there located. For this little contiguous Bath-room did not by any means
exhaust the sanitary and other con-
veniences to which the ' Queen's
Megaron' had access.
'Toilette Room' and Latrine at
Back and Connecting Corridor.
A short cut to the private
room in question was supplied by
a passage opening immediately
South of the ' Bath-room' doors,
called, from the tub-like vessel
there found blocking its entrance,
the ' Corridor of the Painted
Jar'. Remains of the wall-
painting of this passage-way were
found at its Western end, showing
that it had been decorated with the
same system of spiraliform bands
that was met with in the adjoining
Halls and the Bath-room itself.
The remains of the spiral band,
since unfortunately fallen and dis-
integrated, were on a lower level
than in the other areas, the base
line of the frieze, as will be seen from Mr. Fyfe's original drawing, Fig. 259,
being only 62 centimetres above the pavement level.
At the point where the remains of this frieze were found the Corridor
turns at right angles, opening immediately into an inner room lighted from
the little ' Court of the Distaffs '.' This room, which has been already
described, derives its chief interest from the narrow closet that projects from
its East wall which served as a latrine, evidently flushed by water, and curi-
ously anticipating modern sanitary arrangements.2 In a pavement slab of the
room immediately outside the door of the latrine is the semicircular opening
of a sink communicating with the drain beyond. It was here probably that
1 See P. ofM., i, pp. 333, 334, and Fig. 243.
2 Ibid., pp. 228-30, and Fig. 172.
C C 2
Passage
to
' Toilette
room'and
sink.
Recur-
rence of
spirali-
form
band.
Fig. 258. Late ' Palace Style ' Amphora with
Decoration similar to that of the Bath.
' Toilette
Room'
and
latrine.
387
There was, however, a sink in a ' Toilette Room' at the back, about a
score of paces distant, and not improbably a water supply from the cistern
there located. For this little contiguous Bath-room did not by any means
exhaust the sanitary and other con-
veniences to which the ' Queen's
Megaron' had access.
'Toilette Room' and Latrine at
Back and Connecting Corridor.
A short cut to the private
room in question was supplied by
a passage opening immediately
South of the ' Bath-room' doors,
called, from the tub-like vessel
there found blocking its entrance,
the ' Corridor of the Painted
Jar'. Remains of the wall-
painting of this passage-way were
found at its Western end, showing
that it had been decorated with the
same system of spiraliform bands
that was met with in the adjoining
Halls and the Bath-room itself.
The remains of the spiral band,
since unfortunately fallen and dis-
integrated, were on a lower level
than in the other areas, the base
line of the frieze, as will be seen from Mr. Fyfe's original drawing, Fig. 259,
being only 62 centimetres above the pavement level.
At the point where the remains of this frieze were found the Corridor
turns at right angles, opening immediately into an inner room lighted from
the little ' Court of the Distaffs '.' This room, which has been already
described, derives its chief interest from the narrow closet that projects from
its East wall which served as a latrine, evidently flushed by water, and curi-
ously anticipating modern sanitary arrangements.2 In a pavement slab of the
room immediately outside the door of the latrine is the semicircular opening
of a sink communicating with the drain beyond. It was here probably that
1 See P. ofM., i, pp. 333, 334, and Fig. 243.
2 Ibid., pp. 228-30, and Fig. 172.
C C 2
Passage
to
' Toilette
room'and
sink.
Recur-
rence of
spirali-
form
band.
Fig. 258. Late ' Palace Style ' Amphora with
Decoration similar to that of the Bath.
' Toilette
Room'
and
latrine.