CLAS 260 Lecture 3: JAN 25 - Minoan civilization
14 Feb 2017
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Fried pans, no context, we don"t know the purpose. Palaces: interface: city and palace facades decorated (ashlar) specialized techniques: frescos. Est: protopalatial period (mm ii) special materials: timber, ashlar masonry. West courts raised causeways sacred grove and tree theatral areas ceremony community building strategy of political rule. Pithos/pithoi (vessels, giant plain jar, water, for olives oil, wine) > palaces holding eating and drinking events, perhaps the elite, Language unknown syllabary -84 signs and numbers contemporary with hieroglyphic. Wide variety of objects (rings, miniature axes, ingots, vessels and tablets) Stamped signs -> groups of 2 or 7. Whole vessel used for decoration influenced by frescos. Hagia triada (minoan villa) - neopalatial period size varies , types varies rhyton: drinking vessel. > the harvester vase (from hagia triada - neopalatial period) 27 individuals, using forks to separate the soil from the grain.
