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)

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A 'PALACE PICTURE GALLERY'

upper 'loggia', as conjecturally restored for the better preservation of the
spaces below, a series of painted plaster copies by Monsieur E. Gillieron, filS]

Fig. 897.

'Stepped Porch' and ' Throne Room' System as restored, showing Ante-
chamber and Terrace Roof, Upper ' Loggia', and ' Lantern '.

of fresco designs from the site that could not be replaced—as has been feasible
in o;her cases—in their original posiiion on the walls. An interior view 01
the tipper chamber thus reconstituted and decorated is given in Fig. 89h.

Service
quarters
in base-
ment

section.

The 'Service' Section.

Structurally considered, the Ceremonial apartments are inseparable
from an extensive basement suite, which, though not connected with them
below by so much as a single doorway, forms in fact an integral part ol this
Palace block, and, from the economic point of view, was no less incorporated
in it. This was clearly the Service Section, and its seclusion may be large1)'
due to the fact that it seems to have been part of the women's domain.
That it was brought into connexion with the upper floor of the Official