ocr: houses in Knossos had their own storage facilities; hence, the palatial magazines would have received only part of the produce of the region. Thus, to the palatial town might have gone much of the produce from a surrounding region of about 1,000 hectares (2,500 acres). That region, which lies within the much larger natural territory oft the palace, includes the Knossos valley and land to the north on the outskirts of the modern town of Heraklion. A: similar though somewhat less precise computation can be made for Phaistos. Itis possible that in palatial times the rulers of Phaistos controlled ...
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