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At the far end of the hall you will be able to examine a miniature recreation of the palace of Knossós, completed according to early hypotheses on its design.
Room 2 is the first of two rooms displaying finds from the Old-Palace period (2000–1700 b.c.), including the earliest examples of fine Kamáresware pottery with its polychrome decoration, found in the ruins at Knossós.
The King’s Megaron is decorated with a simple wooden throne, though the antechamber walls are incised with images of the double axe or labrys, so important to the mythology surrounding Knossós.
The west wing — as at Knossós — was chiefly made up of shrines and storerooms and many objects of ritual were found during excavations here.
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.
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