CLST 303 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Knossos, Gypsum, Portico
6 Feb 2018
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They all have a central courtyard and magazines. About 8000 sq m: less than half the size of knossos. Crete didn"t feel the need to build defenses and phaistos and knossos weren"t built at their locations for natural defenses. Build in mm i and was later destroyed in lm 1 (ca. 1450: knossos survives but the rest are gone. The sea is easily visible from mallia so they were probably involved in sea trade. Courtyard: very interesting, all four sides are different (different from phaistos and knossos, made of beaten earth, not flat stones, like at phaistos and knossos, so less fancy, the north end had a colonnade and portico. The west wing: most important, rooms are bigger and better build, imposing, more gypsum used. Has several floors, like all palaces: we only see one level, we can only guess at what was above, all the observations we make are relatively unconfirmed because we don"t have the entire picture.
