AR_H_A 3310 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Pithos, Ashlar, Knossos
30 May 2016
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The chair is carved in waves - replicating a mountain, having significance to the status of the person who ist there. Lots of ritual vessels and snake goddesses there. Construction: half timbering, lime-stone eubble, mudbrick, ashlar (half timbering) flexible when earth shakes, more sturdy. Light wells - big open space where light can eneter. Central court - hub of activity, crafts people might work here, performances there, possible hub of economic activity as well o. Built on landscape - close but not to close to sea, protected by mountains: magazines with pithoi (singular pithos = storage jar) Snake goddessess, vs. fake goddessess o o. All snake goddesses made of ivory, stone (and any sport goddesses) are fake. Faience - clay figure that is glazed with crushed rock crystal: not typical. Not found else where: one head, one face, one arm -reconstructed, one is holding snakes and holding them, the other has snakes crawling around her body.
