Palace of Minos

Palace of Minos

1950 to 1375 BCE

1837

visual works

Greece (nation)

Knosós (ancient site)

Minoan

reconstructions (visual works)

palaces

Reconstruction drawing of the staircase of the south wing of the Palace of Minos at Knossos. "Like all the known Minoan palaces, Knossos has a large central court. Many rooms on several levels are arranged around the central court and seem to have served various functions. Store rooms, workshops and archives are readily identifiable: more difficult to label are large, distinguished rooms, which may have been state rooms, or smaller, sometimes elaborately decorated rooms, which were perhaps residential. The contents of yet other rooms seem to indicate shrines, though it is generally difficult to distinguish sacred and secular areas in the palace, perhaps because the Minoans themselves scarcely made this distinction,"--The British Museum's website.

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