ocr: functional sense the villas resembled miniature palaces without the great central court. The villas included storage magazines, oil and wine-making plants, weaving areas, shrines and other more imposing rooms. It cannot be assumed that the villas were palace satellites, helping to organize the collection of produce. They may have been completely independent of the palace, and the stored produce may have been their own. A third possibility is that the villas were neither completely independent of nor completely dependent on the palace. Further work will be needed to decide among the alternative ...