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BRITISH SCHOOL AT ATHENS

KNOSSOS: THE LITTLE PALACE

(Supplementary Volume No. 38)

By

ELENI M. HATZAKI

The Little Palace at Knossos was excavated by Arthur Evans in 1905, 1908 and 1910, but published only in preliminary form. Located north-west of the Kephala hill, it remains after the Palace the largest building at Late Bronze Age Knossos, and one of the finest examples in design and execution of elite Neopalatial architecture.

Stratigraphical and artefactual evidence demonstrates that in the Final Palatial period the building was part of the Linear B administration of Knossos. It was destroyed by a devastating fire, which preserved a small group of Linear B tablets, as well as clay sealings. Thus in the early 1960s, when the dispute began over the date of the destruction of the last Palace at Knossos, the Little Palace became part of the debate. Less notice was paid to its earlier history.

Drawing on evidence from the excavation notebooks of Duncan Mackenzie and Evans, the architecture, and a wealth of artefactual data, Eleni M. Hatzaki provides a detailed analysis of the building's long history and use. The Little Palace, together with the adjacent (and fully published) Unexplored Mansion, makes one of the most detailed datasets for tracing continuity and change in occupation and urban activities in Late Bronze Age Knossos. It helps to demonstrate the complexity of the largest and longest-lived ancient settlement on Crete, which was also a key site for the whole prehistoric Aegean and Eastern Mediterranean.

Cover illustration: The Little Palace during the 1922 restoration (Evans Archive, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford).

ISBN 0 904887 50 2

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