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)

KITCHEN OF 'SERVICE' SECTION AND WOMAN'S SEAT 927

rounded at one end. There can be no doubt that this low table was
designed for some kind of manual work performed by the female occupant

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Fig. 899.

Kitchen of 'Service' Section showing Woman's Seat of Limestone and
Plaster Table and Sideboard.

of the stone seat. The fact that the surface of the table was formed of
plaster excludes the possibility that any kind of grinding or pounding was
performed here. The material employed must have been plastic or partly
liquid, and it is natural to suppose that the receptacles were used for some
preparation of a culinary nature. What cooking was necessary would have
been done by means of a brazier.

Along the inner wall of the room ran a kind of dais rising in a double
step, the surface of which was covered with the same fine hard white plaster
as the table. It is possible that the lower step served as a kind of bench
like that along the wall of the second room of the present suite, while the
upper may have been used as a shelf or sideboard. The centre of this
shelf was hollowed into a bowl-like receptacle like that of the table.
Remains of the same fine white plaster covered the walls of the chamber.1
It was at first called the ' Room of the Plaster Table': it was certainly a kitchen.