same
Room

THE 'ARCHIVES DEPOSIT' 597

the same catastrophe had precipitated other relics of the

on that side.

border, again, ..._ ...................

kind into the space overlying the balustrade of the ' Queen's Bath

Fig. 592.

Interior of Broken

Fig. 591 a, />, c. Successive Sides of Nodule impressed with 'Clay Matrix': b snows
where String for attachment passed ; c, apparently pressed on Wicker-work. (iJ)

Other similar remains were found, beyond the neighbouring Service
Staircase, embedded in the debris that filled the lower part of the Hall of
the Colonnades on its Southern side. Their
occurrence here, indeed, has a special
interest since this group of seal impres-
sions was associated with the largest of
all the inscribed tablets found in the
Palace—a document of 24 lines includ-
ing three lists of men and women.1 Here,
too, were found, together with other re-
mains of tablets, two or three disks of
clay, larger than the ordinary sealings,
which had evidently been used to secure Nodule showing Impress of Coarse

packages.2 They were traversed internally Cord. The Upper Face of this bore
, . , ' Impression of Collared Hound,

by sections of the carbonized string with fig. 597 is,/ (if)

which the package had been tied up and,

in this case, in place of seal impressions, bore graffito inscriptions in the

Linear Class B, with numbers attached = 30.

It is of interest to observe that the impressions of the 'clay matrix'
here reproduced in Fig. 591 a, several specimens of which occurred here, as
in Deposit A,3 seemed to have been overlaid on wicker-work. Nodules
stamped with the widely diffused collared hound motive (Fig. 597 b,/) showed
within them the impress of coarse cord (Fig. 592), closely resembling that
, See below, p. 703, and Fig. 686. probable that they belonged to a single

As they were found within a small radius package.
0 one another and the inscription and * See above, p. 395, Fig. 331.

numbers were in each case identical, it seems

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