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ggo PART OF PILLAR CRYPT WALLED IN FOR BURIAL
Whole- But in a building, itself fundamentally of a sepulchral character, there
sakbunal , ° .. ' } . ,
ofi-e- was not the same motive ior removing the remains of those who mioht
pmt'of'" 'lave met t'le'r c'eat'1 m a catastrophe of this nature. The evidence before
pillar us demonstrates that such a destruction of the ' Temple Tomb' as originally
built took place at the same L. M. I a date as that so clearly traceable in
a section of the Palace. We may infer that in the covered parts of the
building—the little Temple itself, the Pavilion opposite the basement
entrance, and the Pillar Crypt within—devotees were gathered together at
the actual moment of the overthrow in some memorial ceremony.1
Associ- There being no elements among" the fallen remains later than
ated .
pottery L. M. I a—to which almost the whole of the pottery found belonged—-while
"' the succeeding phase L. M. \b was otherwise well represented in the
building, it would seem that a relatively short space of time had intervened
between this catastrophe and the setting on foot of the work of clearance
and restoration. The interval, perhaps, did not exceed the three years still
required by Orthodox Greek usage in the Island before recently interred
bodies can be transferred to the ossuary vault.
To facilitate this clearance, and at the same time to combine with it
a kind of wholesale sepulture within the basement itself—the interval
between the two pillars of the Crypt, and that between the Western
pillar and the walls to West and South of it, were filled with a rough
walling" mostly formed of broken blocks. The character of this rough con-
struction in part of the Eastern compartment, as cleared of its contents,
is shown in Fig. 943 with the free passage-way left beyond for access to
the entrance of the rock-tomb. The rest of the fallen materials—stones,
rubble, clay, fragments of vessels, and human bones—was then heaped up
into the spaces formed by these barriers.2 No attempt at separate burial
was made except that in one or two cases parts of the same skeleton were
laid on the flat surface of schist slabs that had fallen from the roof terrace
or, perhaps, the original floor of the Sanctuary Chamber directly above.
The bones themselves were in a much decayed condition, and may
have belonged to at least a score of individuals.
1 An episode may be recalled of the dini, AnttcMth, StoriaeLelteraturadiRagusa,
destructive Earthquake that occurred at i, p. 321 seqq., and cf. P. of M., it, Rt. I,
Ragusa in 1667, when the upper part of the p. 322).
Palace of the Rectors was destroyed at the - No walling was found between the Eastern
time when the Senate of that little Republic pillar and South Wall, the debris in this case
was assembling, and a third to the Senators being simply heaped into the part that was
together with the Rector were killed (Appen- enclosed on three sides.
Whole- But in a building, itself fundamentally of a sepulchral character, there
sakbunal , ° .. ' } . ,
ofi-e- was not the same motive ior removing the remains of those who mioht
pmt'of'" 'lave met t'le'r c'eat'1 m a catastrophe of this nature. The evidence before
pillar us demonstrates that such a destruction of the ' Temple Tomb' as originally
built took place at the same L. M. I a date as that so clearly traceable in
a section of the Palace. We may infer that in the covered parts of the
building—the little Temple itself, the Pavilion opposite the basement
entrance, and the Pillar Crypt within—devotees were gathered together at
the actual moment of the overthrow in some memorial ceremony.1
Associ- There being no elements among" the fallen remains later than
ated .
pottery L. M. I a—to which almost the whole of the pottery found belonged—-while
"' the succeeding phase L. M. \b was otherwise well represented in the
building, it would seem that a relatively short space of time had intervened
between this catastrophe and the setting on foot of the work of clearance
and restoration. The interval, perhaps, did not exceed the three years still
required by Orthodox Greek usage in the Island before recently interred
bodies can be transferred to the ossuary vault.
To facilitate this clearance, and at the same time to combine with it
a kind of wholesale sepulture within the basement itself—the interval
between the two pillars of the Crypt, and that between the Western
pillar and the walls to West and South of it, were filled with a rough
walling" mostly formed of broken blocks. The character of this rough con-
struction in part of the Eastern compartment, as cleared of its contents,
is shown in Fig. 943 with the free passage-way left beyond for access to
the entrance of the rock-tomb. The rest of the fallen materials—stones,
rubble, clay, fragments of vessels, and human bones—was then heaped up
into the spaces formed by these barriers.2 No attempt at separate burial
was made except that in one or two cases parts of the same skeleton were
laid on the flat surface of schist slabs that had fallen from the roof terrace
or, perhaps, the original floor of the Sanctuary Chamber directly above.
The bones themselves were in a much decayed condition, and may
have belonged to at least a score of individuals.
1 An episode may be recalled of the dini, AnttcMth, StoriaeLelteraturadiRagusa,
destructive Earthquake that occurred at i, p. 321 seqq., and cf. P. of M., it, Rt. I,
Ragusa in 1667, when the upper part of the p. 322).
Palace of the Rectors was destroyed at the - No walling was found between the Eastern
time when the Senate of that little Republic pillar and South Wall, the debris in this case
was assembling, and a third to the Senators being simply heaped into the part that was
together with the Rector were killed (Appen- enclosed on three sides.