FBU4250110: Minoen art. Detail of the “” Blue bird” Fresco or “” The blue bird of crete””. One of the earliest and most important paintings from the so-called ç House of Frescoes è at Knossos is that of the ç Blue Bird è. It is very fragmentary and most certainly belonged to a large composition. Fresco reconstructed from fragments of the original work found in Knossos (1600 - 1450 BC). Archeological museum, Herakleion, Crete., Minoan / Bridgeman Images
FBU4250083: Minoan art. Bull 's-head rhyton. This rhyton was found in the small palace of Knossos. It is a characteristic example of Minoan stone carving of the early Neopalatial period. It is a libation vase, which was filled with the appropriate liquid through a hole in the neck and emptied through another hole on the muzzle. This rhyton imitates a bull, the most important animal in Minoan religion. 1550-1500 BC. Archological mueum of Herakleion, Crete., Minoan / Bridgeman Images
FBU4250148: Minoan archeological site of Phaistos. The west magazines. Large complex of the palace storerooms. It consists of the antechamber, the corridor of the storerooms, and the storerooms themselves. To right and left of the corridor were 11 magazines in which the goods of the palace were stored. The column insde supported the roof. The antechamber opens off the central court and under the floor of the antechamber was discovered the Archive Room of the Old Palace (1900-1700 BC) containing over 6000 clay sealings, ie impressions on balls of clay which were used to monitor the use of the goods in the magazines., Minoan / Bridgeman Images
FBU4250205: Minoan archeological site of Phaistos. part of the North east complex. Complex of four rooms directly adjoining the old palace. These rooms were used to store valuable ritual vessels. The famous “” Phaistos disc”” bearing hieroglyphic writing was found here with other clay tablets inscribed in linear A. There are also Potter's Workshop as a large number of unfinished pots were found here. Phaistos, Crete., Minoan / Bridgeman Images