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The Palace 37
itself, apart from one small shrine (page 41), not a trace
of Greek habitation is found.
It is worth noting in passing that the masons' marks
on the blocks of this sea-gate of Knossos are in the'
form of a trident.
As you go up the ramp you see gradually rising the
mass of Mount Juktas where the 'lying Cretans' vainly
said Zeus was buried. From some way farther west
its shape is like the fine bearded head of a reclining god.
The Central Court divides the official and the state
quarters of the Palace to the west from the more private
and domestic quarters to the east (PI. VIII). When
the Palace proper was founded (M.M. I), all the build-
ings which had once stood here were swept away and
the present Court was made and levelled, the debris
being used to raise the level of the north-west corner of
the Palace. As a result, you now stand immediately on
the Neolithic remains, which descend in some places as
much as twenty feet. Traces of the paving of the court
can be seen here and there. In the north-west corner,
in 'a M.M. II' stratum, was found part of the statue
of an Egyptian official called User, perhaps ambassador
to the Court of Minos.
The first group of rooms on the west side of the Court
consists of the Throne Room and the other rooms
connected with it, constructed in the last days of the
Palace (L.M. II).
Fronting on to the Court is an antechamber with a
stone bench on the north and the south walls, and a
reproduction in wood of the throne in the next room,
which has been set up where charred remains suggested
its position. Next comes the 'Throne Room' (so called)
proper. To the right stands the gypsum throne of Minos
where it was found. Flanking it are reproductions of
itself, apart from one small shrine (page 41), not a trace
of Greek habitation is found.
It is worth noting in passing that the masons' marks
on the blocks of this sea-gate of Knossos are in the'
form of a trident.
As you go up the ramp you see gradually rising the
mass of Mount Juktas where the 'lying Cretans' vainly
said Zeus was buried. From some way farther west
its shape is like the fine bearded head of a reclining god.
The Central Court divides the official and the state
quarters of the Palace to the west from the more private
and domestic quarters to the east (PI. VIII). When
the Palace proper was founded (M.M. I), all the build-
ings which had once stood here were swept away and
the present Court was made and levelled, the debris
being used to raise the level of the north-west corner of
the Palace. As a result, you now stand immediately on
the Neolithic remains, which descend in some places as
much as twenty feet. Traces of the paving of the court
can be seen here and there. In the north-west corner,
in 'a M.M. II' stratum, was found part of the statue
of an Egyptian official called User, perhaps ambassador
to the Court of Minos.
The first group of rooms on the west side of the Court
consists of the Throne Room and the other rooms
connected with it, constructed in the last days of the
Palace (L.M. II).
Fronting on to the Court is an antechamber with a
stone bench on the north and the south walls, and a
reproduction in wood of the throne in the next room,
which has been set up where charred remains suggested
its position. Next comes the 'Throne Room' (so called)
proper. To the right stands the gypsum throne of Minos
where it was found. Flanking it are reproductions of