The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1902-06-08

sault over the back Of a charging bull. 10
whose horns in front ciings a girl in boy s
| costume while another girl performing
behind. with outstretched arms, seems to
wait TO catch her as she is tossed over
the monsters back. The fallen body of 4
man beneath another bull brings out the
grimmer side Of these Minoan sports.
A very interesting feature OF the newly
discovered hall, which will be especially
appreciated BY Homeric students, is
private staircase opening 10 its north wall
and leading up by a double fight 10
upper rooms. On the west side OF the hall
opens passage leading to what must
have been the most secluded part Of the
palace. Here. again, remains OF the up
FER floor levels are well preserved, and
stone bench is still in its place against the
wall of one of the upper rooms. The in
nermost of this group of chambers have
az yet been incompletely excavated, but
the work here has already been produc-
tive of some important results At one
point are remains or what appears II
have been, a wooden staircase, the upper
part OF which was found literally choked
With broken seal impressions from what
must have been a secretary's office on the
upper floor. One of these Impressions
though only a fragment, is of great in
terest as bearing part of the impress OF n
late Babylonian cylinder, thus supplying
direct proof of correspondence with the
east. A very remarkable feature of this
quarter OF the palace is the elaborate
drainage system. The well paved floors
are underlaid by quite a network of stone
channels in places crossing each other
at different levels and roomy enough to
allow man TO crawl along them. \ sue
cession of stone shafts lead down to thess
from the upper story, in one case appar-
entity connected with latrine, of which
a curious and in some respects very mod
ern example also occurs on the ground
floor In another part of the palace sec
tons of a terracotta drain pipe have been
found of most advanced form, provided
with stop ridges.
South of the truly royal group OF cham
bers above referred to is another quarter.
with smaller rooms, perhaps mainly occu-
ped by servants and minor officials Ar
chives were also kept here. as is shown
by the discovery of parts of two boards of
inscribed tablets. One contains lists of
persons indicated by the man sign the
other refers TO the armory. the exhibits,
besides the linear characters of the in
scriptions. outline figures Of swords. In
addition to these finds Of tablets the pot
terry of this and the adjoining region has
produced some quite new Illustrations of
the prehistoric writing of Crete. Besides
graffiti, a fragment of a Mycenaen vessel
shows a painted inscription analogous TO
those later Greek vases, while the inside
Of cup is filled with three lines OF linear
Inscription written in ink, ike those of
Egyptian ostraka. Near the magazine |
the tablets was another with
vases in the earliest palace style, some of |
them painted with very naturalistic lilies. |
An adjoining chamber contained a kind OF /
domestic shrine of the highest Importance /
in its bearing on the local cult. On a |
small dais, beside tripod of offerings, |
ard with a miniature votive double axe |
Of steatite before her, rose q painted ter /
racotta figure of a goddess. pillar shaped |
below according to the old religious ira |
1ition, and with a dove on her head |
while in front of her stood a male votary
holding out another dove. That god
less was associated with the palace cult /
IF the double axe further appears from a
bearing this symbolic weapon in her hand.
On the eastern slope of the hill the
limits Of the palace have extended them
selves beyond all anticipation. A good
Zeal of denudation has here taken place,
1ut among the finds are remains of a
arge architectural fresco with realistic
initiation of veined marble. and stone
ars more capacious than any yet brought
o light. A stone spout jutting out from
neighboring wall and connected by n
conduit with an oil press above explained
1t once their contents and their means
,f filing Further down and here form
ms the outer eastern boundary of the
palace, are massive lines of supporting
walls; at one place FIVE are within an
,ther at intervals of only a foot or so,
md bastion with ascending flights Of
steps fianked by curious water runnels.-
ndia correspondence London Times.