ocr: Some mansions clearly had functions unrelated to collecting produce, and some of them may have been out of the orbit of the palace altogether. The villas at Nirou Khani, Sklavokampos and the newly discovered structures at Zominthos, which straddles a critical junction of roads on Mount Ida, may have been stations on economically significant routes. At Tylissos and Mochlos stood clusters of mansions that can be interpreted as communities commanding land or sea territories. The relation of the mansion clusters to the palace is not understood, but some of them, including Tylissos, are far enough ...
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