Example sentences for: phaistós

How can you use “phaistós” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • 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.


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