DEFINITION: A Minoan palace in southern Crete, built c 2200 BC and inhabited until its destruction c 1450 BC. Connected by road to the palace at Phaestus, one room contained numerous clay tablets with Linear A inscriptions. The small town around it continued later, and it is to Late Minoan III that the site's most famous find belongs. This is a pottery coffin painted with scenes associated with funeral ritual, the pouring of libations, bringing of offerings, etc. Also well known is the Harvester Vase, a stone rhyton portraying in low relief a delightful and vigorous scene of a procession of celebrating harvesters.