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Biblio'ihe'i
Heidelberg
A GUIDE TO THE STRATIGRAPHICAL MUSEUM
IN THE PALACE AT KNOSSOS.
By J. D. S. Pendlebuky.
Based on the work of Dr. Duncan Mackenzie, assisted by Emm. Akoumianos.
With reference to the formation of a stratigraphical Museum within the
Palace, Sir Arthur Evans has supplied the following note :—
" The plan of gradually creating a permanent ' Reference Museum' within
the Palace was first initiated by me in 1905, the opportunity being offered
for it by the roofing over not only of the ' Room of the Throne ' itself,
leaving an available loft under the roof above, but of the corridors and chambers
by which it was backed and surrounded. These were at that time fitted for
shelves, ' the baskets from the various floors and levels being carefully arranged
on these ' (see Report 1905) ' and labelled by Dr. Mackenzie.'
In 1913, when Dr. Mackenzie had undertaken the Directorship of the
Palestine Exploration Fund and the stratigraphical Museum had to be dealt
with by me personally, a special series of exploratory researches was carried
out, some summary references to which, amounting to about a hundred, were
written by me on wooden labels. It had indeed already become necessary to
substitute these for paper owing to the ravages of the small insects known to the
Cretans as tyopdbcioc or ' little fishes.'
This arrangement of shelves was improved when the Throne Room was
roofed over on a better system and the baskets themselves were gradually
replaced by open wooden boxes.
A small workroom was also fitted out by me under the Central Staircase
of the West Palace Section.
About the same time the restoration of upper floors in the Domestic
Quarter provided an additional space in the so-called ' Lair,' which was now
fitted out in the same way. The roofing over of the ' Shrine ' and adjoining
Chamber in the ' Little Palace ' provided in its turn an extension of the
' Museum ' for the benefit of that quarter, and as part of the plan for the restora-
tion of the ' Grand Staircase ' there in 1930-31, a new compartment was built
and fitted up under its second landing.
In 1922 Dr. Mackenzie was able to resume his position as my assistant at
Knossos, but unfortunately, owing to his continued ill-health, little progress
could be made with the ' Palace Museum.' It is therefore a subject of sincere
congratulation that the large arrears have now been successfully dealt with on
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Biblio'ihe'i
Heidelberg
A GUIDE TO THE STRATIGRAPHICAL MUSEUM
IN THE PALACE AT KNOSSOS.
By J. D. S. Pendlebuky.
Based on the work of Dr. Duncan Mackenzie, assisted by Emm. Akoumianos.
With reference to the formation of a stratigraphical Museum within the
Palace, Sir Arthur Evans has supplied the following note :—
" The plan of gradually creating a permanent ' Reference Museum' within
the Palace was first initiated by me in 1905, the opportunity being offered
for it by the roofing over not only of the ' Room of the Throne ' itself,
leaving an available loft under the roof above, but of the corridors and chambers
by which it was backed and surrounded. These were at that time fitted for
shelves, ' the baskets from the various floors and levels being carefully arranged
on these ' (see Report 1905) ' and labelled by Dr. Mackenzie.'
In 1913, when Dr. Mackenzie had undertaken the Directorship of the
Palestine Exploration Fund and the stratigraphical Museum had to be dealt
with by me personally, a special series of exploratory researches was carried
out, some summary references to which, amounting to about a hundred, were
written by me on wooden labels. It had indeed already become necessary to
substitute these for paper owing to the ravages of the small insects known to the
Cretans as tyopdbcioc or ' little fishes.'
This arrangement of shelves was improved when the Throne Room was
roofed over on a better system and the baskets themselves were gradually
replaced by open wooden boxes.
A small workroom was also fitted out by me under the Central Staircase
of the West Palace Section.
About the same time the restoration of upper floors in the Domestic
Quarter provided an additional space in the so-called ' Lair,' which was now
fitted out in the same way. The roofing over of the ' Shrine ' and adjoining
Chamber in the ' Little Palace ' provided in its turn an extension of the
' Museum ' for the benefit of that quarter, and as part of the plan for the restora-
tion of the ' Grand Staircase ' there in 1930-31, a new compartment was built
and fitted up under its second landing.
In 1922 Dr. Mackenzie was able to resume his position as my assistant at
Knossos, but unfortunately, owing to his continued ill-health, little progress
could be made with the ' Palace Museum.' It is therefore a subject of sincere
congratulation that the large arrears have now been successfully dealt with on
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