ARTH 2150 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Death Mask, Rhyton, Dendra
30 Sep 2013
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Niello - made with borax, important b/c non-native technique. Vapheio cups from a tomb *very important, halfway btwn mycenae and. Right around 1600, a new culture explodes and contact with the minoan world opens quickly. This new civilization has evidence of rapid growth of population in urban centers, with this we find a rapid increase in prosperity. Hittites from turkey run up and down the coast and try to get to. Egypt, but the pharaoh stops them (important b/c reference to it on monuments) Some of the splinters of the hittite army ended up in greece, with their established military culture they took over. The shaft graves in circle a was unplundered** the artifacts that. 19 individuals 8 male over 6ft tall, 9 females, 2 children. The earliest of the 6 shaft graves starts at 1580 and goes for about. Grave circle b dates a bit earlier, poorer shaft grave.
