Abstract
Evidence for palatial administration in Mycenae during the Bronze Age is very limited, because only 73 inscriptions in Linear B, which date from 1250 and 1200 BC., have reached us from this site. Most of the inscriptions, 63 documents, come from a block of four buildings outside the Acropolis : the West House, the House of Shields, the House of the Oil Merchant and the House of Sphinxes. This fact has been interpreted by some scholars as evidence for an administrative decentralization, or for a "mixed" domestic and official nature of these buildings. Nevertheless, an accurate analysis of the inscriptions together with the archeological record found in situ shows the exclusively palatial condition of these "houses".
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