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48 The Palace
The door in the south-west corner leads into the
Upper Queen's Megaron, passing the Queen's private
flight of stairs. The arrangement of the rooms appears
to be identical, save that above the Room of the
Plaster Couch is a room with a stone seat on the west
wall and traces of a w.c. in the south-west corner.
Another slight scramble leads you south to a small
passage off which open two rooms which have been
roofed over. In this passage were found the Lily Jars,
small jars of pinkish clay with lilies in white (M.M. III).
The first of the rooms opening off this passage is the
bathroom, in which is preserved a very graceful bath
decorated with sprays of grass in the style typical of
Late Minoan I a. On the rim are what looks suspi-
ciously like supports for a sponge-rail! The door seems
to have had a low gypsum barrier and the room has
been flippantly called the 'Nursery'. The second room
contains three jars. One has a pierced spout, another
has a spout, but it is not pierced right through, the
third merely has the lip pulled out into a sort of knob.
What an archaeological problem! How long did they
take to forget how to make a spout? or, alternatively,
how long did they take to learn how to make a spout?
As a matter of fact all three jars are contemporaneous!
The smallest has a pierced spout because it was small
enough to be tilted to pour out its contents. The other
two were too big to be tilted and were therefore care-
lessly finished off.
Round behind these two rooms, opening off the
passage known as the Corridor of the Sword Tablets,
from clay inventories found here, is a small shrine of
the Double Axes, which has been roofed in (PI. VII).
It is a sad little building, constructed by men of Late
Minoan III, after the destruction of the Palace. On
The door in the south-west corner leads into the
Upper Queen's Megaron, passing the Queen's private
flight of stairs. The arrangement of the rooms appears
to be identical, save that above the Room of the
Plaster Couch is a room with a stone seat on the west
wall and traces of a w.c. in the south-west corner.
Another slight scramble leads you south to a small
passage off which open two rooms which have been
roofed over. In this passage were found the Lily Jars,
small jars of pinkish clay with lilies in white (M.M. III).
The first of the rooms opening off this passage is the
bathroom, in which is preserved a very graceful bath
decorated with sprays of grass in the style typical of
Late Minoan I a. On the rim are what looks suspi-
ciously like supports for a sponge-rail! The door seems
to have had a low gypsum barrier and the room has
been flippantly called the 'Nursery'. The second room
contains three jars. One has a pierced spout, another
has a spout, but it is not pierced right through, the
third merely has the lip pulled out into a sort of knob.
What an archaeological problem! How long did they
take to forget how to make a spout? or, alternatively,
how long did they take to learn how to make a spout?
As a matter of fact all three jars are contemporaneous!
The smallest has a pierced spout because it was small
enough to be tilted to pour out its contents. The other
two were too big to be tilted and were therefore care-
lessly finished off.
Round behind these two rooms, opening off the
passage known as the Corridor of the Sword Tablets,
from clay inventories found here, is a small shrine of
the Double Axes, which has been roofed in (PI. VII).
It is a sad little building, constructed by men of Late
Minoan III, after the destruction of the Palace. On