Main Buliding

Originally there seems to have been a long corridor on each side of the throne room giving access to many storerooms. The passage on the left, or southwestern, side was later divided by crosswalk into additional rooms (13,16, 18, 22). The five small chambers (17, 19, 20, 21, 22) in the western corner of the building, found filled with crushed pottery, had clearly been pantries in which the main stock of ordinary household dishes of the palace was kept. The long narrow room (18), which may be seen close beside the inner half of the throne room, contained, in addition to many large pots of various shapes, numerous diminutive votive vessels, as well as part of a table of offerings (Fig. 10). The room (19) beyond at the left, which once had wooden shelving on all sides, contained—by actual count—2,853 tall-stemmed drinking cups, all crushed and shattered (Figs. 9, 11).

The other three pantries were likewise filled with "china" of many sizes and at least twenty-three different shapes (Figs. 12,13), and the total number of vases found in this quarter exceeded 6,000.