AR_H_A 3310 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Megaron, Egyptian Hieroglyphs, Knossos
30 May 2016
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Evans vision: organized into discrete zones connected by twisting passages w/ maze like complexity, constructed around central court and then builds labyrinth like outwards from starting point o. Long narrow rooms contained food: wheat, grains, olives. Room functions: substantial storage facilities, shrines, ceremonial halls, manufacturing o installations and offices o. Residential quarters speculated to be to the east. : multi storied, lots opening out to the outside world: balconies, courtyards o. Mountains are sacred, lots of shrines on mountains. Evans called these palaces because it looked important and big. o o o. Term is a bit misleading, no firm evidence that it had a residential function. Seem to be centers for collection, storage, processing and distribution of produce. Lustral basins - tiny indoor swimming pools entered by a stair way. (ceremonial?) Horns of consecration - horn like structures on top of buildings: or maybe its possibly an abstract egyptian hieroglyph horizon
