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After the destruction of the palaces in 1450, a new dynasty rules Knossos, bringing the Greek language and the Mycenaean linear B script to Crete.

La Parisienne, so-titled because of the similarity in appearance with Parisian ladies ca. 1900 when the fresco was discovered, probably a priestess participating in a ritual banquet. Knossos, 1400-1350 BC.