Editing Knossos (section)

===Storage===
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[[File:Pithoi in Knossos.jpg|thumb|A storage magazine with giant [[pithos|pithoi]]]]

The palace had extensive storage magazines which were used for agricultural commodities as well as tableware. Enormous sets of high quality tableware were stored in the palaces, often produced elsewhere in Crete.<ref name=SchoepHandbook>{{cite encyclopedia|last=Schoep|first=Ilse|year=2012|title=Crete|editor-last=Cline|editor-first=Eric|encyclopedia=The Oxford Handbook of the Bronze Age Aegean |pages=113–125 |publisher=Oxford University Press |doi=10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199873609.013.0008|isbn=978-0199873609}}</ref> Pottery at Knossos is prolific, heavily-decorated and uniquely-styled by period. In [[Minoan chronology]], the standard [[relative chronology]] is largely based on pottery styles and is thus used to assign dates to layers of the palace.