CLASSICS 1A03 Lecture Notes - Oxhide Ingot, Uluburun Shipwreck, Oxhide
16 Jun 2013
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Lion gate mycenae: lion gate and fortification wall built c. 1250 bc, monumental scale = designed to impress/awe, lions in heraldic pose (heads in wood) = engage viewer. Cyclopean masonry = made by the cyclopes (giants: column = architecture, mythical home to agamemnon, son of atreus, married to clytemnestra. Mycenaean architecture: megaron = large reception hall, focus of palace complexes, anta (pl. antae) = projecting spur walls in the front of a porch or room, distyle in antis = two columns placed between antae. Uluburun shipwreck: excavated 1984-1994 by institute for nautical archaeology and texas a&m university (usa, 44-52 m beneath surface, sank c. 1300 bc. Dating based on dendrochronology (1306 bc), confirmed by ceramic and other finds: merchant ship, with varied cargo. Tin ingots: both bun and oxhide (earliest known) Ingot = material fused for transport, later to be worked into final form, (bullion)
