- Vasiliki ware teapot

- Early Minoan II c. 2500 BCE

- typical pottery tyle of late EMII

- long spouted jugs are a characteristic shape

- decoration is mottled, imitates look of a stone surface

-spots on sides of spout look like birds eyes, a zoomorphic element

- clay turns orange on an open fire, black parts from smokey fire

- 14cm height

- Kamares Ware Jug, Phaistos, Crete

- middle Minoan period c. 2000-1750 BCE

- beak-spouted

- pellets of clay on the spout look like birds eyes, a zoomorphic element

- white on black decoration with mix of other colors, polychrome, geometric

- new style of pottery brought about by the potters wheel, widest point in the middle

- 27cm high

- symmetrical

- Gold Filigree Honeybee Pendant, Mallia

- Middle Minoan III period tomb

- embossing and granulation 

- small gold beads added with solder and filigree decoration

- shows the advanced skill of minoan jewellers

- imported gold from egypt

- shows appreciation for nature

- Plan of Minoan Palace at Knossos

- late minoan period c. 1550-1375 (2nd palace period)

- huge number of storage magazines with pithoi shows redistributive economy

- walls were covered in frescoes

- altars, shrine and temple repositories show large religious affiliation

- central court oriented north/south like all minoan palaces

- officail domestic wings with lightwells and pillars and door partitions

- no fortification walls showing no concern for defence

- evidence of thalassocracy (controlled the ocean around them)

-Bull leaping fresco, Knossos

- Late Minoan Period

- pigments painted onto dry surface and used binding agent to attach to walls

- scenes bordered by geometrc friezes

- motifs derived from natural world and palace life

- int. #1: brown skin = male, white skin = female

- int. #2: white signifies status of male athlete before manhood, red signifies athlete has attained manhood

- likely a rite of passage

- bull in flying gallop to show movement and naturalism

- bull is fertility symbol of power 

-Faience Snake Goddess, Knossos

- Middle Minoan III

- 29.5 cm high

- snake is cthonic, associated with underworld

- feline on head later becomes diagnostic of Dionysis

- found in shrine area of palace

-alot of fakes erected of this sculpture

- polychrome

- geometric style

 - near eastern and mesopotamian influence

- geometry, symmetry and elaborate decoration counter evident interest in naturalism

- Throne Room, Knossos

- Late Minoan Period

- frescoes of griffins, a near eastern motif

- built by the mycenaeans after 1450, the end of the 2nd palace period

- shows the takeover by the mycenaeans

- could have been priestesses sanctuary due to basin in center of room

- basement throne rooom, common feature of later mycenaeans palaces

- Bulls Head Rhyton, Knossos

- Late Minoan Period

- 26 cm

- made of serpentine, limestone and rock crystal

- zoomorphic

- drinking cup

- gilt wood horns

- drinking spout in mouth

-rock crystal eyes are pinkish to look bloodshot

- very naturalistic and energetic

- Marine Style Pilgrim Flask, Palaikastro

- Late Minoan Period c.1500

- most famous example of marine style

- octopus placed on diagonal axis of the pot and tentacles give sense of continuous movement

- octopus was a staple of the greek diet

- 28 cm high

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- Palaikastro Kouros

- Chryselephantine (gold and ivory) body and garments

- late Minoan Period c. 1475

- head and eyes are serpentine and rock crystal 

- 50cm high

- left foot forward like later greek sculpture

- could have been a young version of Zeus b/c Zeus was born on crete

- used proportional grid for drawing human body, used 21 units

- Bull Sacrifice

- Aghia Triadha sarcophagus

- late Minoan period c. 1400

- scene is 15 cm

- painted limestone

- bull sacrifice on sarcophagus depicts evidence of funerary cult

-  sacrifices and offerings to dead are depicted on both sides

- Springtime Fresco

- House D2, Akrotiri, Thera

- c. 1630

- shows that religion focused on fertility (birds mating)

- artist of swallows was incredible and did other frescoes like the Fresco of Antelopes

- flowers were an important theme

- celebration of nature

- very typical minoan

- Reconstruction drawing of the House of Tiles, Lerna

- shows corridor house style

- early helladic II c. 2500-2200

- roof was tiled with heavy tiles

- walls were plastered

- herring-bone stone floor

-discovered by caskey in 1952

- 2nd storey had balconey and light wells

- shows chiefdom society

- Minyan Ware Goblet, Mycenae

- Middle Helladic c. 2000-1550

 - 19 cm high

- reflected use of the fast potters wheel

- rigid angles

- fired extremely hard

- very few coarse particles

- glossy exterior with soapy/greasy feel

- imitated bronze vessels

- monochrome

- restoration of Uluburun shipwreck

- 14th cen BCE

- bronze age shipwreck

- carried many copper and tin ingots

- many objects from eastern mediterranean

- ebony from egypt, ivory tusks from syria

- scrap gold and silver

- mycenaean swords and pottery

- gold scarab of nefertiti found on it

- gold pendant of fertility goddess also found

-found writing tablet older than any other

- probably an official shipment headed to Mycenae

- might have circled entire eastern mediterranean

- Mask of Agamemnon

- grave circle A at Mycenae

- c. 1600-1500 BCE

- not the death mask or body of agamemnon from the Iliad

- 4 other death masks found

- attempt at portraiture although very stylized

- shows expertise of crafts in mycenae

- shows wealth of period

- Bronze Daggers with Niello technique

- grave circle A at Mycenae

- c. 1600-1500 BCE

- late helladic I

- niello is compound burned to make a black outline around figures

- hunting and fighting motifs depict the very war-like mycenaean society

- for ceremonial purposes not battle, b/c they are so elaborate

- Plan and reconstruction of Sesklo, Thessaly

- Mid. Neolithic c. 5300-4300 BCE

- houses made out of waddle and daub

- timber framed houses and stone foundations

- megaron is oriented east/west likelater greek temples

- POTTERY: red geometric on cream background, well made, most identifiable neolihic pottery

- made spindle whorls, stone axe heads and artwork

- used stone stamp seals

- Plan & Reconstruction of Dimini, Thessaly

- Late Neolithic Period c. 3800-3300 BCE

- best late neolithic site

- excavated by tsountas & Chormouziadis

- 6 reatining walls and megaron

- POTTERY: brown or balck geometric patterns in combo with spirals, curved lines, checkerboards, very characteristic of late neolithic pottery

- Diagram of Mycenaean Shaft Grave

- late Mycenaean Period c. 1600-1500

- holds up to five burials

• From bottom to top:

1. sherds from funerary meal and grave goods
2. shaft walls of stone or brick
3. log beams placed across the top
4. clay or slate panels laid across logs
5. dirt filled on top of panels to the top

- Lions Gate, Mycenae

- c. 1400

- lions are on the relieving triangle above the 20 ton lintel stone

- cyclopean masonry>megalithic possesion of space

- massive doorway

- only known surviving example of relief triangle

- limestone

- heads of lionesses missing