Example sentences for: knossós

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  • The west wing — as at Knossós — was chiefly made up of shrines and storerooms and many objects of ritual were found during excavations here.

  • Evans’ subsequent attempts to recreate areas of the palace have met with intense criticism from other scholars but Knossós is now Crete’s premier attraction and rightly so.

  • Artifacts originated in the palaces of Knossós, Mália, and Phaistós and include the superb rhyton (libation vessel used in ritual purification) carved from black steatite in the shape of a bull’s head.

  • The first palace at Knossós was built around 2000 b.c. in the Old Palace era, but this was destroyed by a massive earthquake only 300 years later.

  • Remains under and around the palace show Neolithic settlements, though the first palace was built after 2000 b.c. — later than Knossós and Phaistós — and it revealed no Kamáresware pottery from the Pre-Palatial period like that found at the other palaces.


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