ocr: arguments based on iconographic evidence from the palace at Knossos, however, suggest that a chief priestess was the ruler. (Mallia, Phaistos and Zakros are archaeologically silent on the matter of the ruler's sex.) Whether or not the ruler of Minoan society was female, other findings imply that some groups of women had equality with men, or perhaps preeminence, which would have been a remarkable status in the Bronze Age. Below the rulers of the palace in the social hierarchy there must have been high officials who organized agriculture. Such officials may have been the occupants of the 450f51 ...
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