ocr: palace, that had cult rooms and family-size workshops attached to the exterior. It has been argued by Jean-Claude Poursat of the French School of Archaeology at Athens that this group of buildings housed the religious authorities of the community. If that is SO, there was a division between sacred and secular authority in the early part of the Age ofl Palaces, since the secular rulers undoubtedly lived in the palace. Itis known that in the latter part of the Age of Palaces, after the Middle Minoan buildings in question had gone out of use, both kinds of authority were concentrated in the palac ...
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