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RESTORATION OF L. M. lb: LATEST PALATIAL PHASE 879
identical with that of the Porch leading up West from the Central Court to
the Central Hall and Upper Staircase on that side. As in that case, too,
the last ceramic elements found below the steps were L. M. la, we must
reo-ard the Porch as of contemporary work and as belonging in its present
formT to the same scheme of reconstruction as the East Stairs.
A parallel indication of change at this epoch was supplied by the con- L, M. 1 »
tents of a pit near the West wall of the South Propylaeum. This pit seems depositby
tr, have stood in connexion with a small pillar shrine, of which we have the s- Propy-
hieum
evidence hard by,2 and it contained a large deposit of sherds and a votive ends.
fio-ure representative of L. M. la. It would seem that the pit was at this
time covered in, and the shrine itself altered or reconstructed. In two
cases there is evidence of a change of floor-level. Beneath the later Deposit in
floor of the XVIIIth West Magazine there came to light a small hoard of Magazine,
vases of the mature L. M. I a class on an earlier pavement,3 and the same
experience was repeated in the ' Corridor of the Sword Tablets'.'
The Palace as restored early in L. M. I b: its latest phase.
There is, in fact, cumulative evidence of a widespread disaster having Palace as
befallen the 'New Palace' as it existed in the mature phase of L. M. la, -mLM.lb.
followed by a good deal of restoration and a partial remodelling, completed
in the ensuing L. M. I b stage. Asa whole, however, it may be gathered that
the Palace as now renovated corresponded in its main lines with the fabric
as inherited from the time of the ' Great Rebuilding' of M. M. Ill b. Some
of the masterpieces of painted relief in the Minoan gesso duro still clung, as
we have seen, to the walls. It is also of considerable importance to observe Wide
rJin^G of
that the distribution of the clay tablets of Class B—contemporary with the deposits
last period of the building and stored in a great number of separate ^j^
deposits—extended over practically the whole Palace area with the signi-
' For the ' Stepped Porch' see P. of M., that lias survived to us. The tabula ram
ii, Pt. II, pp. 810-13. I' would seem a logical effected somewhat later in the adjoining area
sequence of the widening of the facade of the to give space for the ' Throne Room ' system
Court on that side, which is shown by con- has, doubtless, destroyed important links in
cordant stratigraphic data to have been part the evidence.
of the ■ Great Rebuilding' of M. M. III/'. The ■ Sec on this Part I, above, p. 3 seqq.
evidence afforded by the substructures is ex- s See above, Pt. I, p. 264 and Fig. 195.
tremely difficult to interpret, but there must ' P. of M., ii, Pt. I, p. 331. The h. M. I a
have been some stepped approach on this side pottery was in a layer below the ' Sword
from the Central Court to the piano nobik Tablets'.
before the construction of the ' Stepped Porch'
identical with that of the Porch leading up West from the Central Court to
the Central Hall and Upper Staircase on that side. As in that case, too,
the last ceramic elements found below the steps were L. M. la, we must
reo-ard the Porch as of contemporary work and as belonging in its present
formT to the same scheme of reconstruction as the East Stairs.
A parallel indication of change at this epoch was supplied by the con- L, M. 1 »
tents of a pit near the West wall of the South Propylaeum. This pit seems depositby
tr, have stood in connexion with a small pillar shrine, of which we have the s- Propy-
hieum
evidence hard by,2 and it contained a large deposit of sherds and a votive ends.
fio-ure representative of L. M. la. It would seem that the pit was at this
time covered in, and the shrine itself altered or reconstructed. In two
cases there is evidence of a change of floor-level. Beneath the later Deposit in
floor of the XVIIIth West Magazine there came to light a small hoard of Magazine,
vases of the mature L. M. I a class on an earlier pavement,3 and the same
experience was repeated in the ' Corridor of the Sword Tablets'.'
The Palace as restored early in L. M. I b: its latest phase.
There is, in fact, cumulative evidence of a widespread disaster having Palace as
befallen the 'New Palace' as it existed in the mature phase of L. M. la, -mLM.lb.
followed by a good deal of restoration and a partial remodelling, completed
in the ensuing L. M. I b stage. Asa whole, however, it may be gathered that
the Palace as now renovated corresponded in its main lines with the fabric
as inherited from the time of the ' Great Rebuilding' of M. M. Ill b. Some
of the masterpieces of painted relief in the Minoan gesso duro still clung, as
we have seen, to the walls. It is also of considerable importance to observe Wide
rJin^G of
that the distribution of the clay tablets of Class B—contemporary with the deposits
last period of the building and stored in a great number of separate ^j^
deposits—extended over practically the whole Palace area with the signi-
' For the ' Stepped Porch' see P. of M., that lias survived to us. The tabula ram
ii, Pt. II, pp. 810-13. I' would seem a logical effected somewhat later in the adjoining area
sequence of the widening of the facade of the to give space for the ' Throne Room ' system
Court on that side, which is shown by con- has, doubtless, destroyed important links in
cordant stratigraphic data to have been part the evidence.
of the ■ Great Rebuilding' of M. M. III/'. The ■ Sec on this Part I, above, p. 3 seqq.
evidence afforded by the substructures is ex- s See above, Pt. I, p. 264 and Fig. 195.
tremely difficult to interpret, but there must ' P. of M., ii, Pt. I, p. 331. The h. M. I a
have been some stepped approach on this side pottery was in a layer below the ' Sword
from the Central Court to the piano nobik Tablets'.
before the construction of the ' Stepped Porch'