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HANDBOOK TO THE PALACE OF MINOS
attractively suggests that the Palace laundry may have been
here. (From here to the Royal Villa, see below page 62, three
minutes.)
On the flat stretch of land between here and the river - the
only suitable space in the district - Sir Arthur beheves the
Bull-Ring to have been, the ring where the foreign tribute of
youths and maidens, sent from the mainland dominions of
Minos, showed their skill with the Bull of Minos.
From the East Bastion you ascend again past the Giant Pithoi
till you come out on to a flat paved corridor where a grating
shows the dram-pipes of the first Palace, with their carefully
tapering shape to ensure a greater head of water driving
through any stoppage. This Corridor of the Draughtboard was
where the inlaid gaming table, now in the Museum, was found.
On one side lies die North-East Hall, on the other, at a lower
level, a series of openings with grooves for sliding partitions,
which may be kennels, and beyond them to the north-east 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 53). 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 particularly
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
HANDBOOK TO THE PALACE OF MINOS
attractively suggests that the Palace laundry may have been
here. (From here to the Royal Villa, see below page 62, three
minutes.)
On the flat stretch of land between here and the river - the
only suitable space in the district - Sir Arthur beheves the
Bull-Ring to have been, the ring where the foreign tribute of
youths and maidens, sent from the mainland dominions of
Minos, showed their skill with the Bull of Minos.
From the East Bastion you ascend again past the Giant Pithoi
till you come out on to a flat paved corridor where a grating
shows the dram-pipes of the first Palace, with their carefully
tapering shape to ensure a greater head of water driving
through any stoppage. This Corridor of the Draughtboard was
where the inlaid gaming table, now in the Museum, was found.
On one side lies die North-East Hall, on the other, at a lower
level, a series of openings with grooves for sliding partitions,
which may be kennels, and beyond them to the north-east 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 53). 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 particularly
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