The palaces

The most important of the palaces is that at Knossos (Fig. 12.2), but there are a number of others strung along the coasts. The palaces must have been centres of

Figure 12.8 Evans’s photo of his reconstruction of the elements of the temple repositories. Note the figurines of the woman left and right, and in the background (figurine standing at left, ca. 34 cm high) (Evans 1921-35: I. 518).