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DEPOSITS OF L.M.I a POTTERY IN PALACE
Survivals On the other hand, the earlier Late Minoan phase, L. M. I a, embodi
ismln™1" many °f tne naturalistic elements of the Third Middle Minoan, the orio-i,
L. M. la, 0f which have in turn received some fresh illustration in Section 93 above
from the relief style of the Second Middle Minoan stage.
Several of the plant, and flower designs on the painted pottery belong-
ing to the opening phase of L. M. I and the transition from M. M. Ill ^
stand in a direct relation to some of the natural forms supplied by the
■remains of the painted stucco panels of the ' House of the Frescoes '—such
as the lilies and crocus sprays, and the wild peas that there climb about the
rocks. These reflect a somewhat passing artistic fashion in which land-
scapes were preferred to sea-scapes: in L. M. I b on the contrary, the
' marine style' is again predominant.
This earlier stage of the first Late Minoan phase does not itself answer
to an)' marked epoch in the structural history of the Palace. The catastro-
phic ruin to which the largest and most widespread deposit of pottery was
clue took place, as has already been demonstrated in the course of this
work, towards the close of M. M. Ill, followed apparently in the West part
of the site by a partial hiatus. The. next epoch marked by considerable
ceramic accumulations represents the lower limit of L. M. I a and belongs
to a time when most of the elements of pure naturalism visible in its opening-
phase had been discarded.
Deposits of L.M. I« pottery in Palace: probably due to Fresh Seismic
Disturbances.
The secretion of the later L. M. I a deposits—themselves much more
local in their distribution than those which marked the previous overthrow-
was the result of a work of partial renovation and of still more general
redecoration for which we have evidence throughout the Domestic Quarter
and elsewhere on the Eastern slope at an epoch intermediate between the
catastrophic close of the M. M. Ill Palace and its final ruin at the end of
L.M. II. The occasion for this work of renewal seems to have been
supplied by an Earthquake shock of somewhat less violence than the other
two, though there are strong indications that the remarkable Temple-
Tomb of a Priest-king of the New Era, described below,1 owed the
wreckage of its upper columnar Sanctuary to this convulsion.
• hoard
Mature
L. M. I a
deposits
in Palace
due to
partial
catastro-
phe and
struc-
tural
changes.
L. M. I a
deposit
beneath
later
'East
Stairs'.
The most clearly marked instance of a considerable ceramic
too by evidence 0
hat radical
deposited at this intermediate epoch—accompani
structural alterations amounting in the adjoining area to a somew
1 SeePt II, |n6.
DEPOSITS OF L.M.I a POTTERY IN PALACE
Survivals On the other hand, the earlier Late Minoan phase, L. M. I a, embodi
ismln™1" many °f tne naturalistic elements of the Third Middle Minoan, the orio-i,
L. M. la, 0f which have in turn received some fresh illustration in Section 93 above
from the relief style of the Second Middle Minoan stage.
Several of the plant, and flower designs on the painted pottery belong-
ing to the opening phase of L. M. I and the transition from M. M. Ill ^
stand in a direct relation to some of the natural forms supplied by the
■remains of the painted stucco panels of the ' House of the Frescoes '—such
as the lilies and crocus sprays, and the wild peas that there climb about the
rocks. These reflect a somewhat passing artistic fashion in which land-
scapes were preferred to sea-scapes: in L. M. I b on the contrary, the
' marine style' is again predominant.
This earlier stage of the first Late Minoan phase does not itself answer
to an)' marked epoch in the structural history of the Palace. The catastro-
phic ruin to which the largest and most widespread deposit of pottery was
clue took place, as has already been demonstrated in the course of this
work, towards the close of M. M. Ill, followed apparently in the West part
of the site by a partial hiatus. The. next epoch marked by considerable
ceramic accumulations represents the lower limit of L. M. I a and belongs
to a time when most of the elements of pure naturalism visible in its opening-
phase had been discarded.
Deposits of L.M. I« pottery in Palace: probably due to Fresh Seismic
Disturbances.
The secretion of the later L. M. I a deposits—themselves much more
local in their distribution than those which marked the previous overthrow-
was the result of a work of partial renovation and of still more general
redecoration for which we have evidence throughout the Domestic Quarter
and elsewhere on the Eastern slope at an epoch intermediate between the
catastrophic close of the M. M. Ill Palace and its final ruin at the end of
L.M. II. The occasion for this work of renewal seems to have been
supplied by an Earthquake shock of somewhat less violence than the other
two, though there are strong indications that the remarkable Temple-
Tomb of a Priest-king of the New Era, described below,1 owed the
wreckage of its upper columnar Sanctuary to this convulsion.
• hoard
Mature
L. M. I a
deposits
in Palace
due to
partial
catastro-
phe and
struc-
tural
changes.
L. M. I a
deposit
beneath
later
'East
Stairs'.
The most clearly marked instance of a considerable ceramic
too by evidence 0
hat radical
deposited at this intermediate epoch—accompani
structural alterations amounting in the adjoining area to a somew
1 SeePt II, |n6.