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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 27 September 2013
This paper reviews the chronology and purpose of the ‘Early Keep’ N of the Central Court at Knossos. Examination of all the surviving pottery in the Stratigraphic Museum suggests that the Keep was constructed no earlier than MM I B and was not therefore a monumental contemporary of either the Hypogeum or the North-West Platform. Its function remains uncertain, but the deep ‘cells’ must have served a specific purpose, and it is suggested that the Keep may have served as a secure granary for the palace. It was probably decommissioned and built over at the beginning of MM III.
1 I am grateful to the Visitors of the Ashmolean Museum for allowing me to study Evans's diaries and photos, and to Ann Brown for helpful advice on the diaries. Thanks are also due to the Managing Committee of the British School at Athens for permission to study the Evans material in the Stratigraphic Museum, Knossos. I have benefited greatly from discussions with Sinclair Hood and Alan Peatfield concerning the excavations on the North-West Platform, and I am grateful to Peter Warren for having read and commented on a draft of this text.
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