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The Dependencies of the Palace 51
to excavated at Knossos (PI. VIII). It is roughly
ninety yards by thirty. Much of the east side has un-
fortunately disappeared, including the actual entrance,
but enough remains to show us a most stately suite
of reception rooms which the Palace itself cannot rival.
From the entrance hall four shallow flights of stairs
lead up into the 'Hall of the Peristyle' beyond which
was the Great Megaron. These rooms were bordered
to the east by a corridor whose outer border consisted
of two groups of columns between square piers.
Whether there were further buildings to the east, or
whether they stood on the edge of a terrace, it is
impossible to say.
Off the north-west corner of the Great Megaron opens
a paved lavatory with a stone sink. West of the Hall
of the Peristyle is the stairway, two flights of which
still remain. West again is a doorway whose jambs,
instead of being constructed of wood resting on gypsum
bases, are of gypsum the whole height, a symptom
perhaps of the gradual deforestation of the island
which seems to have begun about the period the Little
Palace was being built (M.M. Ill 6-L.M. I a).
North of this, part of the building has been roofed
over, and is entered from the west. There is a step
on which to stand in order to look into the Lustral
Area. On the destruction of Knossos generally, at the
end of Late Minoan II, the Little Palace was re-
occupied by 'squatters'. They divided up the larger
rooms by building partition walls, and in this case
they walled up the space between the columns of the
East Balustrade. The wooden columns have perished,
but their impressions remain and can be seen. It is
from these column impressions with their convex
fluting that the column in the bathroom of the Queen's
to excavated at Knossos (PI. VIII). It is roughly
ninety yards by thirty. Much of the east side has un-
fortunately disappeared, including the actual entrance,
but enough remains to show us a most stately suite
of reception rooms which the Palace itself cannot rival.
From the entrance hall four shallow flights of stairs
lead up into the 'Hall of the Peristyle' beyond which
was the Great Megaron. These rooms were bordered
to the east by a corridor whose outer border consisted
of two groups of columns between square piers.
Whether there were further buildings to the east, or
whether they stood on the edge of a terrace, it is
impossible to say.
Off the north-west corner of the Great Megaron opens
a paved lavatory with a stone sink. West of the Hall
of the Peristyle is the stairway, two flights of which
still remain. West again is a doorway whose jambs,
instead of being constructed of wood resting on gypsum
bases, are of gypsum the whole height, a symptom
perhaps of the gradual deforestation of the island
which seems to have begun about the period the Little
Palace was being built (M.M. Ill 6-L.M. I a).
North of this, part of the building has been roofed
over, and is entered from the west. There is a step
on which to stand in order to look into the Lustral
Area. On the destruction of Knossos generally, at the
end of Late Minoan II, the Little Palace was re-
occupied by 'squatters'. They divided up the larger
rooms by building partition walls, and in this case
they walled up the space between the columns of the
East Balustrade. The wooden columns have perished,
but their impressions remain and can be seen. It is
from these column impressions with their convex
fluting that the column in the bathroom of the Queen's