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Another good spot for lunch is Vóri just north of Phaistós.
If by now you are in need of some rest and refreshment make your way to the coastal resort of Mátala just a little way south of Phaistós.
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.
Room 3 holds the Phaistós Disc, a 16-cm- (6-inch-) diameter clay disc imprinted with hieroglyphic and geometric symbols that have yet to be deciphered.
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.