Bridgeman Education

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Large figurine crowned with models of opium poppy, 1300-1200 BC

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Goddess with upraised arms and bird symbols on her head, 1200-1100 BC

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View of the throne room of the palace of King Minos. 1600-1400 BC (photography)

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Art egeen: ceramic vase in the shape of honeycomb and snake. From Cnossos (Knossos). 1700-1450 BC. Heraklion, Archeological Museum

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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.

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Minoan archeological site of Phaistos. General view of the central court from the shrines of the west wing. The central court is a basic architectural element of Minoen palace. It is a core around which the different wing are set. This central court was built in the time of the old palace (1900-1700 BC). It was also use in the New Palace. The central court was used for economic, social and religious activities of the palace. Phaistos, Crete.

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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.

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Minoan archeological site of Phaistos. Staircase starting in the west court and leadind to The Propylaea, the principal and the most impressive entrance to the new palace and steps which formed the seats of the theatral area, used for religious event and festivals. (1700-1450 BC). Phaistos, Crete.

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Minoan archeological site of Phaistos. View over a “” Bench shrine”” of the West wing. The “” bench Shrine”” was a small and rectangular room with low benches running round the walls to support cult objects and figurine of the deity. On some of them were found female figurine, ritual vessels, and “” offering tables”” (small altar). Phaistos, Crete?

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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.

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Minoan archeological site of Phaistos. View over 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.

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Oriental part of the palace of the King Minos at Knossos between the queen megaron and the central court. Crete. 1600-1450 BC

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Oriental part of the palace of the King Minos at Knossos between the queen megaron and the central court. Crete. 1600-1450 BC

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Minoan art. The “Bull-Leaping” Freso. Bull leaping scene depicting how this sport was performed. The fresco was found on the east side of the palace of Knossos, 1600- 1400 BC. Archeological Museum of Herakieon, Ccrete.

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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.

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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