Pendlebury, John D.: The archaeology of Crete: an introduction (London, 1939)

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be the first occurrence of the Mainland type of megaron in
Crete.1

The extreme East end of Crete seems to have attained con-
siderable prosperity after the disaster. Dawkins remarks that
ashlar masonry is rare at Palaikastro before L.M.ma.2 The
plans correspond in the main to those of the previous period.
In one house in block A were found objects from a shrine.3
Three dancers surround a central female figure playing a lyre.
Since figurines of doves were also found, it is clear that we have
to do with some sanctuary not unlike the shrine of the Double
Axes at Knossos.

At Zakros an exceptionally fine house was cleared. This
house bears an astonishing but obviously fortuitous resem-
blance to the contemporary houses of Tell el-Amarna.4 A

CHAMBER TOMB ; ZAPHER PAPOURA - L M IE

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doorway on to the street leads to a large reception-hall—or
possibly court—(9) from which access was obtained to the
main living-room (5), which was no doubt run up higher than
the surrounding rooms and lit by clerestory lighting. Behind
this were the domestic quarters. There seems to have been a
bathroom (16) and a service-room (4). The reoccupation
houses at Gournia (blocks Eh and He) show the same good
work and resemble in plan the Zakros house.

So good and prosperous are these L.M.ma houses in the
East that, taking into consideration their practical abandon-
ment before L.M.111&,5 one wonders whether perhaps the
invasion of the Mainlanders had had only a temporary effect
and whether owing to renewed energy on the part of the

1 Ibid., XI, 220 ; XII, 250, where it is suggested that it is the result
of the introduction of the fixed hearth.

2 Ibid., 283, 286. 3 Ibid., X, 216 ff., and Sup., 88.
1 J.E.A., XIX, 1 ff. 5 B.S.A., XI, 250.

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