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objective or anything other than the king himself
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in the administration of justice. One scholar says,
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"It is natural to infer that the king,
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all powerful controller of the all seeing bureaucracy,
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possessed supreme authority also
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in the region of lawmaking and law enforcement.
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An omnipresent bureaucracy
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with its detailed and all encompassing records
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gives the clearest picture of the power
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exercised by the centralized monarchs of the Mycenaean Age."
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The records discovered at Pylos here are particularly interesting.
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They cover only one part of a year