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878 RESTORATION L. M. 16, PREVIOUS SEISMIC RUIN
In the case of the basement rooms and passages of the ' Domesti
Quarter' this slabbing had largely survived to the last clays of the Palace
and had been adapted to what may be regarded as an intermediate system
of spiral bands such as we see in the ' Queen's Bathroom'. In the West
wing of the Palace, owing to the ruin of the piano uobik, the original
gypsum dadoes had disappeared and the decorative bands that had run
above them were only recoverable from scattered fragments. One record
of the older arrangement had been preserved, however, in the entrance
passage known from its later decoration as the ' Corridor of the Proces-
sion'. At the foot of a wall forming its continuation East, part of one of
the original gypsum dado slabs was found adhering to a limestone block of
the wall. This was, in turn, covered with stucco belonging to the later
system in which the painted designs started from the pavement level, as
in the latest Palatial phase.
The Restoration of L. M. I /;.
That a very real catastrophe befell the Palace of the ' Great Rebuild-
ing '—the ' Late Palace' in its widest signification—towards the close of its
L. M. I a stage may be gathered from many phenomena with which we are
now confronted.
Seismic F°r measuring the extent of this catastrophe, which, like those that
catas- nac[ preceded it, had been probably of a seismic character, and at the same
towards time for fixing its date, the best evidence is supplied by the upper story 01
L°M.°I a. tne ' Domestic Quarter'. The damage there was clearly considerable,
resulting in the case of the ' Upper East-West Corridor' in structural
changes of a radical kind. The passage-way itself, as afterwards recon-
structed, was made to run East to a new staircase connecting it directly
with the terrace level below. From beneath the ' East Stairs', thus called
illustrated into existence, a mass of pottery was brought out containing", in addition to
Sbi'ii?.5' some M-M- HI elements, such as parts of 'Medallion' pithoi, great
quantities of painted clay vessels or their fragments, representing the
earlier and the mature stage of L. M. I a. Mere, it may be remembered,
were found numerous ' flower-pots' of that epoch presenting- tufts of reeds 01
grasses.1 The contemporary ruin of the Temple Tomb cost human victims.
The hard limestone material of the staircase shows that it was open
to the sky, or, at least, exposed to weather conditions. As already noted,
the limestone here used, though not otherwise employed in the building, 1S
1 SeeP. «/.')/., iii, p. 274seqq.andpp.278,279,Figs. 186, IS". ! See below, pp. 988' 985'
In the case of the basement rooms and passages of the ' Domesti
Quarter' this slabbing had largely survived to the last clays of the Palace
and had been adapted to what may be regarded as an intermediate system
of spiral bands such as we see in the ' Queen's Bathroom'. In the West
wing of the Palace, owing to the ruin of the piano uobik, the original
gypsum dadoes had disappeared and the decorative bands that had run
above them were only recoverable from scattered fragments. One record
of the older arrangement had been preserved, however, in the entrance
passage known from its later decoration as the ' Corridor of the Proces-
sion'. At the foot of a wall forming its continuation East, part of one of
the original gypsum dado slabs was found adhering to a limestone block of
the wall. This was, in turn, covered with stucco belonging to the later
system in which the painted designs started from the pavement level, as
in the latest Palatial phase.
The Restoration of L. M. I /;.
That a very real catastrophe befell the Palace of the ' Great Rebuild-
ing '—the ' Late Palace' in its widest signification—towards the close of its
L. M. I a stage may be gathered from many phenomena with which we are
now confronted.
Seismic F°r measuring the extent of this catastrophe, which, like those that
catas- nac[ preceded it, had been probably of a seismic character, and at the same
towards time for fixing its date, the best evidence is supplied by the upper story 01
L°M.°I a. tne ' Domestic Quarter'. The damage there was clearly considerable,
resulting in the case of the ' Upper East-West Corridor' in structural
changes of a radical kind. The passage-way itself, as afterwards recon-
structed, was made to run East to a new staircase connecting it directly
with the terrace level below. From beneath the ' East Stairs', thus called
illustrated into existence, a mass of pottery was brought out containing", in addition to
Sbi'ii?.5' some M-M- HI elements, such as parts of 'Medallion' pithoi, great
quantities of painted clay vessels or their fragments, representing the
earlier and the mature stage of L. M. I a. Mere, it may be remembered,
were found numerous ' flower-pots' of that epoch presenting- tufts of reeds 01
grasses.1 The contemporary ruin of the Temple Tomb cost human victims.
The hard limestone material of the staircase shows that it was open
to the sky, or, at least, exposed to weather conditions. As already noted,
the limestone here used, though not otherwise employed in the building, 1S
1 SeeP. «/.')/., iii, p. 274seqq.andpp.278,279,Figs. 186, IS". ! See below, pp. 988' 985'