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The Palace 47
grooves for sliding partitions, which may be kennels,
and beyond them the Royal Pottery stores where the
thin egg-shell ware of Middle Minoan II style was
discovered.
From the Corridor of the Draughtboard you turn
south. There are three openings. The left-hand,
eastern one, is an open court in which lies the upper
channel of the rain-water conduit which comes out in
the Court of the Stone Spout (see page 45). The
central door leads to the Magazine of the Medallion
Pithoi of which several have been restored. They are
mainly important for the light they shed on a parti-
cularly debatable point in the history of Mycenae.
The western door leads into the Corridor of the Bays,
the massive piers of which probably supported some
heavy weight in the hall above, whose general outline
can be made out on the plan by following the heaviest
of the basement walls. In this Great East Hall, there
is reason to believe, a colossal female statue, probably
the great Minoan Goddess, once stood, whose bronze
locks were discovered below, as well as masses of
charred wood. To this Hall must have belonged the
series of high reliefs in plaster taken from agonistic
scenes and representing the highest development of
Minoan glyptic art.
Passing through the Corridor of the Bays, you arrive
again in the Upper Hall of the Colonnades. Leave
the Shield Fresco on your right and, after going a few
steps along the Middle East-West Corridor, turn right,
into the Upper Hall of the Double Axes. Here the door-
jambs which were found fallen below have been put
back into their original position and a small piece of
Late Minoan II fresco, showing part of a bull's leg, has
been protected.
grooves for sliding partitions, which may be kennels,
and beyond them the Royal Pottery stores where the
thin egg-shell ware of Middle Minoan II style was
discovered.
From the Corridor of the Draughtboard you turn
south. There are three openings. The left-hand,
eastern one, is an open court in which lies the upper
channel of the rain-water conduit which comes out in
the Court of the Stone Spout (see page 45). The
central door leads to the Magazine of the Medallion
Pithoi of which several have been restored. They are
mainly important for the light they shed on a parti-
cularly debatable point in the history of Mycenae.
The western door leads into the Corridor of the Bays,
the massive piers of which probably supported some
heavy weight in the hall above, whose general outline
can be made out on the plan by following the heaviest
of the basement walls. In this Great East Hall, there
is reason to believe, a colossal female statue, probably
the great Minoan Goddess, once stood, whose bronze
locks were discovered below, as well as masses of
charred wood. To this Hall must have belonged the
series of high reliefs in plaster taken from agonistic
scenes and representing the highest development of
Minoan glyptic art.
Passing through the Corridor of the Bays, you arrive
again in the Upper Hall of the Colonnades. Leave
the Shield Fresco on your right and, after going a few
steps along the Middle East-West Corridor, turn right,
into the Upper Hall of the Double Axes. Here the door-
jambs which were found fallen below have been put
back into their original position and a small piece of
Late Minoan II fresco, showing part of a bull's leg, has
been protected.