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»54 LKYMAL bWOKD-HlLl Of CKULii-UKM TYPE
were found from a store-room immediately above, overlooking the Sour]
Western entrance passage of the Central Court. This store-room must
have opened on the upper landing of the Entrance Staircase of the
Domestic Quarter on that site1
and would therefore have been
of exceptionally easy access.
As supplying a chronologi-
cal terminus a quo for the 'Sword
Tablet' Deposit, it is of interest
to note that, below the later
plaster floor, on which these
remains were found, and im-
mediately above the original
limestone paving of the Corridor,
painted pottery came to light of
the mature L. M. I a class, iri-
„ c. ^7^ ir- eluding a small high-spouted
Fie. 837. Crystal Sword Hilt of 'Cruci- & . .. s '
form' Type (restored) found near Deposit of ewer with spiraliform decora-
'Sword Tablets'. tion identical with that of vases
from the Deposit beneath the later pavement of the Eighteenth Magazine,-
and of many examples from Gournia,3 as well as of a ' rhyton' from the
Second Shaft Grave of Mycenae.* On the other hand, the relative date of
the ' sword tablets ' was still further fixed by the occurrence in the overlying
stratum—separated from them by an earth deposit about 25 centimetres
thick—of sherds belonging to the same mature L. M. 111 a class as the pottery
within the neighbouring ' Shrine of the Double Axes ', belonging to the
period of Re-occupation.
That stores of the bronze swords themselves were preserved in the
vicinity of tablets referring to them—as was the case with bronze arrows-
may be gathered from some fragmentary remains found at about the same
Part of ]evei on the borders of the Corridor where they lay. These, indeed, seem to
crvsta.1 .
hiii-plate have belonged to special weapons ofState, for they included—besides pieces
!°ea"d °f 8"°'c' P'ate w't^ mmute gold nails, such as are otherwise associated with
wooden handles of swords and daggers—a part of a magnificent crystal lutt-
plate (Fig. 837). Enough of this was preserved—including the double raised
' See plan, Vol. ii, Pt. 1, p. 329, Fig. 18C. > See p. 271, Fig. 201 above, and cf. Karo>
■ See pp. 264, 265 above. Sellachtgriifor, PI. CLXX, No. 221: Tex,
' E.g, Boyd-Hawes, Gournia, PI. VII, 41, p. j0) ' Gute edit minoische Ware',
and passim.
were found from a store-room immediately above, overlooking the Sour]
Western entrance passage of the Central Court. This store-room must
have opened on the upper landing of the Entrance Staircase of the
Domestic Quarter on that site1
and would therefore have been
of exceptionally easy access.
As supplying a chronologi-
cal terminus a quo for the 'Sword
Tablet' Deposit, it is of interest
to note that, below the later
plaster floor, on which these
remains were found, and im-
mediately above the original
limestone paving of the Corridor,
painted pottery came to light of
the mature L. M. I a class, iri-
„ c. ^7^ ir- eluding a small high-spouted
Fie. 837. Crystal Sword Hilt of 'Cruci- & . .. s '
form' Type (restored) found near Deposit of ewer with spiraliform decora-
'Sword Tablets'. tion identical with that of vases
from the Deposit beneath the later pavement of the Eighteenth Magazine,-
and of many examples from Gournia,3 as well as of a ' rhyton' from the
Second Shaft Grave of Mycenae.* On the other hand, the relative date of
the ' sword tablets ' was still further fixed by the occurrence in the overlying
stratum—separated from them by an earth deposit about 25 centimetres
thick—of sherds belonging to the same mature L. M. 111 a class as the pottery
within the neighbouring ' Shrine of the Double Axes ', belonging to the
period of Re-occupation.
That stores of the bronze swords themselves were preserved in the
vicinity of tablets referring to them—as was the case with bronze arrows-
may be gathered from some fragmentary remains found at about the same
Part of ]evei on the borders of the Corridor where they lay. These, indeed, seem to
crvsta.1 .
hiii-plate have belonged to special weapons ofState, for they included—besides pieces
!°ea"d °f 8"°'c' P'ate w't^ mmute gold nails, such as are otherwise associated with
wooden handles of swords and daggers—a part of a magnificent crystal lutt-
plate (Fig. 837). Enough of this was preserved—including the double raised
' See plan, Vol. ii, Pt. 1, p. 329, Fig. 18C. > See p. 271, Fig. 201 above, and cf. Karo>
■ See pp. 264, 265 above. Sellachtgriifor, PI. CLXX, No. 221: Tex,
' E.g, Boyd-Hawes, Gournia, PI. VII, 41, p. j0) ' Gute edit minoische Ware',
and passim.