ocr: elaboration of the native styles. The ultimate result of this prolonged architectural refinement was the design of the palace at its zenith in about 1450B.C.As noted above, that design included many small buildings fringing a central court. Some elements of the design had Minoan prece- dents. The plan of the early palace at Phaistos clearly shows a cellular arrange- ment of small buildings linked by passages that resembles the honeycomb arrangement of the Early Bronze Age settlements. Other design elements do not seem to have Cretan antecedents and may have been imported. The monumentality of ...
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