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Title: The palace of Minos : a comparative account of the successive stages of the early Cretan civilization as illustrated by the discoveries at Knossos
Year: 1921 (1920s)
Authors: Evans, Arthur, Sir, 1851-1941 Evans, Joan, 1893-1977
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Publisher: London : Macmillan and Co.
Contributing Library: Cornell University Library
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a wall which must have of limestone (8 cm. deep x 16 broad). They belonged to the original interior drainage of lay 80 cm. below the surface and contained this part of the building. It was choked with M. M. II b pottery, as also the cistern. The pottery M. M. I-III. Early drains have al- affluent of the main N. drain referred to, which ready been referred to,p. 225, as connected with was of built construction like it, stood in con- the roof line of a verandah along the original nexion ^ith a lateral closet showing a circular fagade of the Palace on the section later broken aperture in its pavement. through by the Antechamber of the Throne ^ The very friable remains of this super-Room. Here was a cement-lined cistern or ficial duct were unfortunately destroyed bysettling tank, about a cubic metre in capacity, careless visitors to the site,from which two overflow conduits led in slightly » See below, p. 379 seqq., Figs. 275, 276.divergent directions to an affluent of the great PLATE I
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