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   ocr: Mycenaean writing, the transliteration of Greek known as Linear B, employs Minoan symbols. Thus, the largest and richest Cretan palace, and the one with the greatest number of economic records, had a final occupation controlled not by Minoans but by Greek immigrants. The four known palaces differed not only in grandeur but also in the detailed arrangement of functional areas. There was generally a west wing extending from the central court to a western court. The ground floor of the west wing was divided into two sections: storage magazines, filled with great jars called pithoi, and rooms for ...