Where they were found
A map. Tap a site, see what was found there.
Most of it comes from one place. 1,167 of 1,883 documents in the corpus come from Haghia Triada, a villa near Phaistos. The next is Khania, with 247 of 1,883 documents in the corpus. The name Haghia Triada is Greek for Holy Trinity, so it tells you nothing about the Minoans.
Not every dot is a palace. Some are peak sanctuaries with one carved stone cup. Some are single sherds. The count next to each name is documents, and a document here is one record: usually one object, sometimes one face of it (so a tablet written on both sides can count twice).
The map shows Crete and nothing else. It leaves out 15 of 55 sites in the corpus, because they lie off the island or because nobody wrote down where on Crete the object turned up: Unknown findspot, Thera, Kea, Crete, Miletos, Melos, Mycenae, Kythera, Samothrace, Troy, Arkhalkhori, Haghios Stephanos, Margiana, Tel Haror and Tiryns.
