ARTH 3102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Manfred Bietak, Minoan Pottery, Thutmose Iii
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Religious symbols (horns of consecration, double axe) Architectural elemnts (pillar crypt, pier-and-door partition, adyton: phylakopi. Although lower levels of the sight are not accessible because they are under the water table. May have been a minoan trading post. No military or presence available for us to nd. Hykosos control in lower egypt 1700-1580 bc. The pharaohs below want to recover their territory. And tae back tell el-dab"a (avaris) 1538. Reconqured by the egyptian pharaohs 1530 bc. And it is built on the ruins of the hyksos palace. Palaces of thutmosis iii 1479-1424 bc (early in his reign) Famous because there are thousands of fragments that come from minoan wall paintings - fresco. Minoan iconography fresco, believed that they r done by minoan crafts man. The iconoggrpahy is so close that they ware done from the people from the palace of knossos. On top of the scene is a wavy border.