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622 THE'GRANARY'TABLETS: VARIOUS CEREAL SIGNS
by an eye-witness of the excavation, burnt barley-corns also occurred and
some of these vegetable products lay inside the pithoi. There can be no
doubt, however, that, like the painted pottery—then called ' Mycenaean'__
found at the same level, these grains had fallen from the floors above. The
exhaustive examination of the contents of the great jars in the Magazines
of both sections of the Palace, made in the course of my own excavations
failed indeed to discover any traces of corn or any other grains within them
and the negative evidence is so overwhelming as to necessitate the con-
clusion that the pithoi were exclusively used for the storage of oil.
Carbon-
ized
grains of
millet
found
in E.
Quarter.
' Granary
tablets
also asso-
ciated
with
Maga-
zine D.
Fig. GO". Car-
bonized Grain of
Millet from De-
posit N. of Loom-
weight Area, (f)
The ' Granary ' Tablets : Cereal Signs and Remains.
There is, as will be seen, good reason for supposing that the corn
belonging to the Palace lords was mainly stpred in
granaries outside the walls. The only good evidence of
internal storage of grain is supplied by the discovery of
a deposit of burnt corn in the narrow area North of the
'Loom-weight Basement' on the East side, containing
a M. M. Ill filling in which a group of faience plaques
known as the ' Town Mosaic' was brought to light. The
corn which may have been stored in some upper Maga-
zine of the Palace on that side seems clearly,1 from
the grains preserved (Fig. 607),
to have been, in this case, some
kind of millet.
The occurrence of barley,
peas, and beans in the Third
Magazine — probably derived
from the Upper Magazine D,
that overlay it—stands in re-
lation to another discovery
made in the same basement
area and the adjoining en-
trance section of the small
Corridor leading to the Pillar
Rooms. Amongst the materials precipitated into this area from the upper
1 There were burnt remains as of a superficial envelope above the cores of the grains as
shown in the figure.
Fig. 60S
Granary ' Signs.
by an eye-witness of the excavation, burnt barley-corns also occurred and
some of these vegetable products lay inside the pithoi. There can be no
doubt, however, that, like the painted pottery—then called ' Mycenaean'__
found at the same level, these grains had fallen from the floors above. The
exhaustive examination of the contents of the great jars in the Magazines
of both sections of the Palace, made in the course of my own excavations
failed indeed to discover any traces of corn or any other grains within them
and the negative evidence is so overwhelming as to necessitate the con-
clusion that the pithoi were exclusively used for the storage of oil.
Carbon-
ized
grains of
millet
found
in E.
Quarter.
' Granary
tablets
also asso-
ciated
with
Maga-
zine D.
Fig. GO". Car-
bonized Grain of
Millet from De-
posit N. of Loom-
weight Area, (f)
The ' Granary ' Tablets : Cereal Signs and Remains.
There is, as will be seen, good reason for supposing that the corn
belonging to the Palace lords was mainly stpred in
granaries outside the walls. The only good evidence of
internal storage of grain is supplied by the discovery of
a deposit of burnt corn in the narrow area North of the
'Loom-weight Basement' on the East side, containing
a M. M. Ill filling in which a group of faience plaques
known as the ' Town Mosaic' was brought to light. The
corn which may have been stored in some upper Maga-
zine of the Palace on that side seems clearly,1 from
the grains preserved (Fig. 607),
to have been, in this case, some
kind of millet.
The occurrence of barley,
peas, and beans in the Third
Magazine — probably derived
from the Upper Magazine D,
that overlay it—stands in re-
lation to another discovery
made in the same basement
area and the adjoining en-
trance section of the small
Corridor leading to the Pillar
Rooms. Amongst the materials precipitated into this area from the upper
1 There were burnt remains as of a superficial envelope above the cores of the grains as
shown in the figure.
Fig. 60S
Granary ' Signs.