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492 CENTRAL LIGHT-AREA AND DRAIN: 'EAST HALL'
Lateral From the top of the steps the depth of the landing is conditioned by that
to land- °f tne ' Corridor of the Bays' below, giving a space of about a metre. We
mS- may infer by analogy that it had two lateral doorways, that to the South
opening on the roof terrace overlying the 'Domestic Quarter'. By this
door direct access would be gained to the point where the topmost flight of the
' Grand Staircase' emerged on this level. Its opening was certainly protected
from the elements by some kind of roof pavilion, the shelter of which would
have extended to the landing- of the 'East Hall'. It would thus have been
possible by this route to reach the great Halls of the adjoining section
entirely under cover.
Door- The West wall of the ' Magazine of the Medallion Pithoi' clearly
the E. supplies the line of support for the door openings leading into the interior of
Hal1- the East Hall. In conformity with the general plan, these were presumably
four in number, with wide openings answering in position to the inter-
columniations of the Portico. These openings must be supposed to have
had two-leaved doors, like those of the ' Hall of the Double Axes'.
Central With regard to the architectural arrangement of the interior of the Hall
of Haiirea some direct evidence is forthcoming. We have proof of a drain-shaft
evidenced running up near the middle of the interior, which shows that there had been
by drain & r ' .,,.,.
head. here a small light-area. It has already been pointed out that the earlier
structures in this section of the basement plan, Fig. 338, are quite consistent
with the idea that there had been here a peristyle surrounding a small square
Court.
At the point indicated on the basement level, and set against the inner
side of the substructures of the early facade wall, a square limestone basin
came to light opening into the section of a conduit of the same material, which
was at first taken to be part of an ' olive-press '.' That it was the base of an
ascending drain-shaft serving a light-court above has long been recognized.2
Course The stone conduit itself with which this is provided, after passing
through an opening—perhaps expressly made for it—in the neighbouring wall
a little to the North of it, funs straight towards the further wall of the
adjoining open basement area, as if it had been intended to prolong its
course in that direction. Instead of this, however, it turns at this point by
a sharp angle towards the early North-East Portico, from which, as already
shown, it made its way by a vertical descent down the terrace wall and,
1 See Knossos, Report, 1901, pp. 82, 83. material. This may be of earlier date than
2 A little South of it, as shown in the Plan, the other, but what restricted function of
Fig. 341, is another smaller basin of terra- drainage it may have served it is impossible
cotta communicating with a pipe of the same now to determine.
of drain
to blind
well.
Lateral From the top of the steps the depth of the landing is conditioned by that
to land- °f tne ' Corridor of the Bays' below, giving a space of about a metre. We
mS- may infer by analogy that it had two lateral doorways, that to the South
opening on the roof terrace overlying the 'Domestic Quarter'. By this
door direct access would be gained to the point where the topmost flight of the
' Grand Staircase' emerged on this level. Its opening was certainly protected
from the elements by some kind of roof pavilion, the shelter of which would
have extended to the landing- of the 'East Hall'. It would thus have been
possible by this route to reach the great Halls of the adjoining section
entirely under cover.
Door- The West wall of the ' Magazine of the Medallion Pithoi' clearly
the E. supplies the line of support for the door openings leading into the interior of
Hal1- the East Hall. In conformity with the general plan, these were presumably
four in number, with wide openings answering in position to the inter-
columniations of the Portico. These openings must be supposed to have
had two-leaved doors, like those of the ' Hall of the Double Axes'.
Central With regard to the architectural arrangement of the interior of the Hall
of Haiirea some direct evidence is forthcoming. We have proof of a drain-shaft
evidenced running up near the middle of the interior, which shows that there had been
by drain & r ' .,,.,.
head. here a small light-area. It has already been pointed out that the earlier
structures in this section of the basement plan, Fig. 338, are quite consistent
with the idea that there had been here a peristyle surrounding a small square
Court.
At the point indicated on the basement level, and set against the inner
side of the substructures of the early facade wall, a square limestone basin
came to light opening into the section of a conduit of the same material, which
was at first taken to be part of an ' olive-press '.' That it was the base of an
ascending drain-shaft serving a light-court above has long been recognized.2
Course The stone conduit itself with which this is provided, after passing
through an opening—perhaps expressly made for it—in the neighbouring wall
a little to the North of it, funs straight towards the further wall of the
adjoining open basement area, as if it had been intended to prolong its
course in that direction. Instead of this, however, it turns at this point by
a sharp angle towards the early North-East Portico, from which, as already
shown, it made its way by a vertical descent down the terrace wall and,
1 See Knossos, Report, 1901, pp. 82, 83. material. This may be of earlier date than
2 A little South of it, as shown in the Plan, the other, but what restricted function of
Fig. 341, is another smaller basin of terra- drainage it may have served it is impossible
cotta communicating with a pipe of the same now to determine.
of drain
to blind
well.