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The palaces of Crete and their builders (1907)

Mosso, A. (Angelo), 1846-1910 · London, Unwin · leaf 26

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pebbles had been thrownupon the remains of the ancient palace. This plaster became ashard as a rock, and has now to be broken up by explosives inorder to recover the objects below. My excavations beganto the right of the spot marked P, where there is a pithos, orgreat jar, as tall as a man. r//^ .A… … FIG. 3.—CHAMBERS OF THE MAGAZINES WHERE I EXCAVATED DOWN TO THE VIRGIN SOIL. The pit of V\g. 4 was made in the room P in the left-hand corner. masonry, and all the contents removed. The pit measures i6square metres, the sides being 4 metres long. The soil removedfrom it is of a characteristic brown…

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