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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.
Tools and ceremonial objects were found just where they were dropped at the time of the great cataclysm along with the crystal rhyton on view in the Iráklion Museum and a chest containing hundreds of clay tablets inscribed with the Linear A script; archaeologists even discovered an urn with olives preserved though the millennia.
A delicate rock crystal rhyton on display here shows the sophistication of both workmanship and personal taste in the New-Palace period.