<P> Commercial interaction was also intense with the Italian peninsula and the western Mediterranean . Mycenaean products, especially pottery, were exported to southern Italy, Sicily and the Aeolian islands . Mycenaean products also penetrated further into Sardinia, as well as southern Spain . </P> <P> Sporadic objects of Mycenaean manufacture were found in various distant locations, like in Central Europe, such as in Bavaria, Germany, where an amber object inscribed with Linear B symbols has been unearthed . Mycenaean bronze double axes and other objects dating from the 13th century BC have been found in Ireland and in Wessex and Cornwall in England . </P> <P> Temples and shrines are strangely rare in the Mycenaean archaeological sites . Monumental cultic structures are absent at all the palatial centres, with the exception of Mycenae . However, the cultic center of Mycenae seems to have been a later (13th century BC) development . Small shrines have been identified in Asine, Berbati, Malthi and Pylos, while a number of sacred enclosures have been located near Mycenae, Delphi and Amyklae . Linear B records mention a number of sanctuaries dedicated to a variety of deities, at least in Pylos and Knossos . They also indicate that there were various religious festivities including offerings . Written Mycenaean records mention various priests and priestesses who were responsible for specific shrines and temples . The latter were prominent figures in society, and the role of Mycenaean women in religious festivities was also important, just as in Minoan Crete . </P> <P> The Mycenaean pantheon already included many divinities that were subsequently encountered in Classical Greece, although it is difficult to determine whether these deities had the characteristics and responsibilities that would be attributed to them in later periods . In general, the same divinities were worshipped throughout the Mycenaean palatial world . There may be some indications for local deities at various sites, in particular in Crete . The uniformity of Mycenaean religion is also reflected in archaeological evidence with the phi - and psi - figurines that have been found all over Late Bronze Age Greece . </P>

What may have caused the end of the mycenaean civilization