Memory of a feasting event in the First Palace of Phaistos: preliminary observations on the bench deposit of Room IL
Bibliographic record
Abstract
In this paper I will present a deliberate ceramic deposit found inside a large paved bench \ndiscovered in Room IL of the main building of the First Palace at Phaistos, ie the Southwest \nquarter. This deliberate deposit is highly significant for two reasons: firstly, it is a closed and \nsealed deposit dated to MM II A, and it therefore represents a Protopalatial feasting context, \nwhich allows us to gain a deeper understanding of feasting activities in Protopalatial Crete; \nsecondly, it consists of an exceptionally large assemblage of whole and fragmentary vases, \ncombined with faunal remnants and with ‘ritual’ objects. \nWithout attempting to label the typology of the feasting reflected by this peculiar \nbench deposit, it will nevertheless be argued that the bench of Room IL was constructed and \nfilled at the same time as the new renovation plan of the Southwest quarter that occurred at \nthe beginning of MM II, most likely in MM IIA.
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Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.004 | 0.002 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.008 | 0.001 |
Machine scores (provisional)
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Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
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