CLAS 111 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Crete, Taal Volcano
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Golden ibex (looks like a little goat)- in ritual deposit. Flotilla fresco-long& smaller: lots of buildings& people. Does the society you have been able to reconstruct based upon the frescoes from akrotiri on. The frescos that we looked at in class came from different buildings in akrotiri such as. Most of their buildings seem to be laid out in similar ways. Room 5 in the west house, a house in sector b and xeste 3. One of the similarities we re(cid:272)og(cid:374)ized (cid:271)et(cid:449)ee(cid:374) the fres(cid:272)os at akrotiri a(cid:374)d the creta(cid:374) (cid:862)mi(cid:374)oa(cid:374)(cid:863) fres(cid:272)os (cid:449)ere their respect for some sort of god or goddess. Both cultures seemed to always have rooms that are interpreted to be for some type of ceremony, most likely religious. They also tend to have very colorful paintings and very intricate pictures depicted. They both have a lot of animals in their frescos, and for the most part the are depicted in a nice way.
