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Standing Female Figurine Amorgos, (Crete), Greece
3000 BCE
Early Cycladic Greek
[marble, 30 inches]
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Akrotiri
Thera (Santorini), Greece
c. 1500 BCE
Minoan |
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Saffron Gatherers
(Xeste 3 Building)
Akrotiri, Thera (Santorini) Greece
c. 1500 BCE
Minoan
[goes with the “Mistress of Animals and Saffron Gatherer” fresco] |
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Fleet Fresco
(West House)
Akrotiri, Thera (Santorini), Greece
c. 1500 BCE
Minoan
[fresco]
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Palace of Knossos
Crete, Greece
c. 1500 BCE
Minoan |
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Bull-Leaping Fresco
Palace of Knossos, Crete, Greece
c. 1500 BCE
Minoan
[fresco]
(sometimes called the “Toreador Fresco”) |
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Minoan Bull Leaper
Crete, Greece
c. 1500 BCE
Minoan
[Bronze, c. 5 inches long]
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Citadel
Mycenae, Greece
1500 BCE
Mycenaean |
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Lion Gate
Citadel, Mycenae, Greece, 1500 BCE
Mycenaean
[limestone relief , 9 ½ feet high]
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Dagger Blade
Mycenae, Greece
1500 BCE
Mycenaean
[bronze inlaid with gold and silver, c. 9 inches long] |
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Treasury of Atreus
Tholos tomb, Mycenae, Greece
c. 1300 BCE
Mycenaean |
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| “rule of the sea” meaning domination of a seafaring population over others |
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| pool or chamber that holds liquids or into which liquids are poured, for sacred purposes |
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| vessel from which libations (ritual liquids) were poured to the dead or to the gods as offerings (often takes a zoomorphic form – the head of an animal, etc.) |
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an arch (here triangular) above a lintel that lessens the weight of the masonry above a doorway or other susceptible feature
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a deep, narrow pit, often cut into natural rock, used for burial
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from the Greek “Large room”; square room with central hearth and four columns, used for administrative and ritual purposes, in Mycenaean palaces
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a round burial structure of stone with a corbelled, ‘false dome’ roof; sometimes called a ‘beehive tomb’
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the stone lined passage leading up to the tholos chamber
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