Evans, Arthur J.: The Palace of Minos: a comparative account of the successive stages of the early Cretan civilization as illustred by the discoveries at Knossos (Band 4,2): Camp-stool Fresco, long-robed priests and beneficent genii [...] (London, 1935)

9o4 ANTE-CHAMBER OF 'ROOM OF THRONE'

in the well-defined form in which it frequently recurs on the earliest ba
blocks of the Palace. A gap of about 13-50 metres (45 ft.) here occur

Fig. 870.

View showing West Bench of Ante-room and, beyond Projecting Wall-end,
the North Side of the ' Room of the Throne ' beyond.

Traces of
bull-sport
frescoes.

between this corner-piece of the old facade line and its continuation on the
Southern border of the ' Stepped Porch'.

On each side of the Chamber were low gypsum benches. That to the
left on entering- was continuous along the whole length of the wall, and its
base showed the ' marbled ' band and bull's foot illustrated above.1 A red
strip was visible beneath the ' marbled' band, and there were traces of a red
wash on the pilastered face of the seat below. (Cf. Suppl. PI. LXIII-)

Against the North Wall of the Ante-chamber were two similar gypsum
benches with an interspace answering to the arrangement also found in the
'Room of the Throne' itself. Here and above the bench to the right
were also traces of the same ' marbled' band as that on the opposite wall,
as well as of red colouring below. The seats themselves, the slabs of
which somewhat projected, were about 34 centimetres above the pavement

the base-slabs of the older facade North of view), and cf. P. of M., i, pp. 139, !4°> an
the original Western Entrance of the Palace Fig. 102, and ii, Pt. II, p. 661 secjq.
(see above, Pt. I, p. 57, Fig. 3-1, Isometric l See above, p. S93, Fig. S72.