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STORAGE ON UPPER FLOORS 669
these had been preserved were also found, in this case together with bronze
loop handles. Here, too, as with many other hoards, occurred a series of
clay sealinos. Some of these, as has been noted,1 were countermarked with
the arrow si°n, standing in connexion with remains of chests here found
containing masses of arrows with bronze heads, a pictographic figure of one
of which was engraved on a tablet.
In this case pieces of the plaster floor of the tipper chamber in which Mostly
the tablets had been stored came to light at a lower level, and a further upper
proof of their upper story location was afforded by the burnt condition of fl°ors■
many specimens, some being actually reduced to cinders. The same was
true of a series of tablets found above the level of the Upper East-West
Corridor and its continuation North, some of which may, indeed, have been
derived from a roof terrace where the)' had been placed for sun-baking.
On the other hand, in the exceptional instance of storage in a basement 'Chariot
1 & Tablets'
closet, illustrated by the 'Chariot Tablet' deposit, a phenomenon of a contrary in base-
kind was observable. Many of these, together with the chests that had Hosef
contained them, having been probably set on shelves on the back wall of remains
. of chests.
the closet, bore evidence of the action of fire. Others, however, that had
lain on the floor of the little chamber had escaped this action, and proved
to have been insufficiently baked. A group of four of these that la)'
intact in their original order on the pavement were carefully cut out by me
in one piece with the indurated earth that held them together, and tem-
porarily transferred for the night to the old Turkish house that at that time Effects of
served as head-quarters, in the glen below Kephala. But a torrential storm
that came on in the night poured through our rotten thatch, and inundated
the tray containing the tablets. When the mischief was discovered it was
too late, and they had been reduced to a pulpy mass.2 Together with
them, unfortunately, was a clay sealing in the same .insufficiently baked
state, presenting a design of a chariot and horses with a charioteer and a
personage behind him. It had been evidently used b'y the superintendent
of the royal stables to seal the chest that had contained the tablets. The
type much resembled one found in the somewhat earlier hoard of sealings
from Hagia Triada.3
Part of a hoard of tablets in the same.unbaked condition came to light 'Adze'
on the floor of the South-East Corner of the Eighth Magazine.4 These fromMSag.
were embedded in a clay mass representing the remains of a much larger VI.'! "J
. / L o o original
number reduced to a kind of pulp, owing to the effects of moisture, as, in the order.
1 See above, pp. 6r6, 617, and Fig. 603. ■ See below, p. S2S, Fig. SOS.
See, too, Scripla Mima, i, p. 14S. ' See Scripia• Minoa, i, pp. 44, 45.
these had been preserved were also found, in this case together with bronze
loop handles. Here, too, as with many other hoards, occurred a series of
clay sealinos. Some of these, as has been noted,1 were countermarked with
the arrow si°n, standing in connexion with remains of chests here found
containing masses of arrows with bronze heads, a pictographic figure of one
of which was engraved on a tablet.
In this case pieces of the plaster floor of the tipper chamber in which Mostly
the tablets had been stored came to light at a lower level, and a further upper
proof of their upper story location was afforded by the burnt condition of fl°ors■
many specimens, some being actually reduced to cinders. The same was
true of a series of tablets found above the level of the Upper East-West
Corridor and its continuation North, some of which may, indeed, have been
derived from a roof terrace where the)' had been placed for sun-baking.
On the other hand, in the exceptional instance of storage in a basement 'Chariot
1 & Tablets'
closet, illustrated by the 'Chariot Tablet' deposit, a phenomenon of a contrary in base-
kind was observable. Many of these, together with the chests that had Hosef
contained them, having been probably set on shelves on the back wall of remains
. of chests.
the closet, bore evidence of the action of fire. Others, however, that had
lain on the floor of the little chamber had escaped this action, and proved
to have been insufficiently baked. A group of four of these that la)'
intact in their original order on the pavement were carefully cut out by me
in one piece with the indurated earth that held them together, and tem-
porarily transferred for the night to the old Turkish house that at that time Effects of
served as head-quarters, in the glen below Kephala. But a torrential storm
that came on in the night poured through our rotten thatch, and inundated
the tray containing the tablets. When the mischief was discovered it was
too late, and they had been reduced to a pulpy mass.2 Together with
them, unfortunately, was a clay sealing in the same .insufficiently baked
state, presenting a design of a chariot and horses with a charioteer and a
personage behind him. It had been evidently used b'y the superintendent
of the royal stables to seal the chest that had contained the tablets. The
type much resembled one found in the somewhat earlier hoard of sealings
from Hagia Triada.3
Part of a hoard of tablets in the same.unbaked condition came to light 'Adze'
on the floor of the South-East Corner of the Eighth Magazine.4 These fromMSag.
were embedded in a clay mass representing the remains of a much larger VI.'! "J
. / L o o original
number reduced to a kind of pulp, owing to the effects of moisture, as, in the order.
1 See above, pp. 6r6, 617, and Fig. 603. ■ See below, p. S2S, Fig. SOS.
See, too, Scripla Mima, i, p. 14S. ' See Scripia• Minoa, i, pp. 44, 45.