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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.
Just 3 km (2 miles) from Phaistós is Agía Triáda, built, archaeologists believe, as a summer palace for the royal court and linked to the city by Minoan road.
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.
The Phaistós disc was discovered here in 1903 but not in any of the important Palatial-era rooms.
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.