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Excavations at Palaikastro. IV: § 5.—Block π

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 October 2013

R. M. Dawkins
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The completion of work on this block consisted almost entirely or examining lower strata in the northern and eastern quarters. Whilst in one part of the block (26 on Plates XII. and XIII.) the rocky subsoil rises so high as to have led to the total destruction of all remains, in the immediately adjacent regions to the north and east it sinks so low as to leave some three or four metres of deposit with four clearly separate strata of walls. Plate XII. gives a plan shewing the two earlier sets, Middle Minoan and, above this, but on different lines, Late Minoan I., and Plate XIII.

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Annual of the British School at Athens , Volume 11 , November 1905 , pp. 286 - 290
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Copyright © The Council, British School at Athens 1905

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page 288 note 1 These two phases of L. M. I. seem to correspond to Dr. Evans' M. M. III. and L. M. I., in the latter of which he notes the appearance of a new red colour. He however ascribes the pottery of the Zakro pits to L. M. I. Flat saucerlike cups which mark the Knossian M. M. III. (B.S.A. x. p. 8) were found in great numbers in the earlier L. M. I. pottery of χ 30 and 43, and the pithos in τ 38–40 is another link between the two. I have preferred not to describe the earlier as M. M. III. since it seems best to take the destruction of the town and the disuse of the ossuaries, which preceded it, as the boundary between Middle and Late Minoan. As at Knossos, so at Palaikastro it was a period of building, though this house was perhaps built somewhat earlier than the foundation of the later palace, which took place ‘when the Third Period Middle Minoan style was fully developed’ (B.S.A. x. p. 13).