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THE 'SERVICE' SECTION
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seat in
entrance.
Ouarter by means of a small staircase running up from one of its back
compartments, is, as pointed out below, extremely probable. On the other
hand its back door opened on the same paved corridor that was approached,
only a few paces East, from the corner entrance of the Ante-room.
In the corner immediately behind this back door, though somewhat Woman
displaced, there came to light on the plaster floor what must be regarded
is a woman's seat, consisting" of a thick limestone slab hollowed out above
like the Throne (see Plan, Fig. S77) to fit the curves of the body, but of
somewhat ampler proportions, and in this case, as in that supplied by another
example on the Kitchen floor beyond (see below, Fig. 899), raised only about
five inches above the pavement level. By this entrance doorway there
seems to have squatted a female porter. In the small adjoining room1 was
a low ledce of blocks jutting out from the base of the outer wall, the stump
of an earlier and thicker wall-line, perhaps also used as a bench.
It is interesting to note that on the threshold of the doorway leading Stone
_, . . „ t^ij 1 ,.... . ... l drum with
from this ' Room of the btone Bench to that adjoining it to the West was sunken
quad-
rants.
I
K-------o-69«
Fig. 898. 'Stonk Drum':
Upper Plan.
found the clay impression with the axe-holding,
priest-like figure described above,'2 clad in a long
winding robe, and which, like similar signet types,
may well represent an actual Priest-king. Beside him
was the dolphin badge of sea power. The figure.is
apparently youthful, and corresponds with that of
a better executed intaglio from Vatheia, East of
Knossos,bolh initslongrobeandSyro-EgyptianAxe.3
Have we here the actual signets of the last Priest
King? This room presented an enigmatic feature.
About 1-50 metres from its West wall and 1 metre
from that to the South stood the limestone drum of a column 0-69 centi-
metres in height and the same in diameter, resting, without a base, on the
cement floor. The Eastern half of its flat top was cut out into two shallow
quadrants, as seen in Fig. 89S, the base of these running almost exactly
towards the magnetic North. Against the West wall of the room, cemented
into its plaster, and near the column drum, was a thin gypsum slab of semi-
circular form, standing about the same height as the top of the pillar.
It is evident that the purpose of the column drum and the semicircular
slab was in some way connected. They must both nave been made use of
The door of this room had been later ing were found remains of tablets of Class B.
blocked with a wooden partition and had at first " See pp. 413, 414, and Fig. 313, b.
been regarded as a cupboard. Under the block- ' See below, p. 946, Fig. 914 bis.
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seat in
entrance.
Ouarter by means of a small staircase running up from one of its back
compartments, is, as pointed out below, extremely probable. On the other
hand its back door opened on the same paved corridor that was approached,
only a few paces East, from the corner entrance of the Ante-room.
In the corner immediately behind this back door, though somewhat Woman
displaced, there came to light on the plaster floor what must be regarded
is a woman's seat, consisting" of a thick limestone slab hollowed out above
like the Throne (see Plan, Fig. S77) to fit the curves of the body, but of
somewhat ampler proportions, and in this case, as in that supplied by another
example on the Kitchen floor beyond (see below, Fig. 899), raised only about
five inches above the pavement level. By this entrance doorway there
seems to have squatted a female porter. In the small adjoining room1 was
a low ledce of blocks jutting out from the base of the outer wall, the stump
of an earlier and thicker wall-line, perhaps also used as a bench.
It is interesting to note that on the threshold of the doorway leading Stone
_, . . „ t^ij 1 ,.... . ... l drum with
from this ' Room of the btone Bench to that adjoining it to the West was sunken
quad-
rants.
I
K-------o-69«
Fig. 898. 'Stonk Drum':
Upper Plan.
found the clay impression with the axe-holding,
priest-like figure described above,'2 clad in a long
winding robe, and which, like similar signet types,
may well represent an actual Priest-king. Beside him
was the dolphin badge of sea power. The figure.is
apparently youthful, and corresponds with that of
a better executed intaglio from Vatheia, East of
Knossos,bolh initslongrobeandSyro-EgyptianAxe.3
Have we here the actual signets of the last Priest
King? This room presented an enigmatic feature.
About 1-50 metres from its West wall and 1 metre
from that to the South stood the limestone drum of a column 0-69 centi-
metres in height and the same in diameter, resting, without a base, on the
cement floor. The Eastern half of its flat top was cut out into two shallow
quadrants, as seen in Fig. 89S, the base of these running almost exactly
towards the magnetic North. Against the West wall of the room, cemented
into its plaster, and near the column drum, was a thin gypsum slab of semi-
circular form, standing about the same height as the top of the pillar.
It is evident that the purpose of the column drum and the semicircular
slab was in some way connected. They must both nave been made use of
The door of this room had been later ing were found remains of tablets of Class B.
blocked with a wooden partition and had at first " See pp. 413, 414, and Fig. 313, b.
been regarded as a cupboard. Under the block- ' See below, p. 946, Fig. 914 bis.