Evans, Arthur J.: The Palace of Minos: a comparative account of the successive stages of the early Cretan civilization as illustred by the discoveries at Knossos (Band 4,1): Emergence of outer western enceinte, with new illustrations, artistic and religious, of the Middle Minoan Phase (London, 1935)

SOUTH-WEST COLUMNAR CHAMBER AND PILLAR CRYPT 5

In the original Plans A and C,1 neither the Columnar Chamber above,
as brought out by the more recent investigations, nor the pillar crypt
below had been defined. These, however, are shown in the emended Plans

of this sectionof the build-
ing at the end of this
Volume. Special plans
of this area by Mr. Piet
de Jong are also given in
Fig. 2, a and b.

A problem different
from that concerned with
the actual structures was
presented by the con-
siderable remains of
painted stucco decoration
found throughout the
Palace, sometimes still
clinging to the walls but
to a much greater extent
fallen from them. The
scattered distribution of
many of these remains,
the parlous condition of
some of them, the month-
long study in many cases
required for any attempt
at their arrangement,
made it necessary, when
the preliminary arrange-
ment had been concluded
in our own workshop,
Fie. 2. a, Ground Plan or S.W. Columnar Chamber tnat thev should be trans-

WITH ADJOINING SECTION; /', BASEMENT Pl.AN, SHOWING

Removal
of re-
mains to
Museum.

. Crypt beneath.

ferred to the Museum.

But it seemed a duty of
the excavator to preserve, wherever practicable, the history of the building
by replacing in situ—even when it entailed some reconstitution of the
walls—replicas of the fresco designs as completed from the existing
fragments.

1 Contained in the pocket of Vol. ii, Pt. II.