ARTH 227 Lecture 10: class 10 ARTH 227
Document Summary
Pseria: house of the rhyta: rhyta are cone shaped vessels, however their definiting feature is pouring area and hole at the bottom. These are the kinds of things you might see in a cult place. Sistrum- originating in egypt, associated with goddess hathor. Death procession- having to do with deceased person. Processions are an important feature of minoan ritual; in this case a. Other side is bull sacrifice funerary procession accompanied by music: horns of concencration. We can recover objects & reconstruct cult practices but hard to understand what exactly they believe about supernatural. Cycladic islands- circle around island of delos (island of appolo) 9/30: people of pompeii had no warning so we find valuables, we find domestic stuff rather than valuables. Crossroads for sea travel in the aegean. Chronology with implications for entire eastern mediterranean. Layers of ash, pumic, pyroclastic flows buried at akrotiri, depositing on thera: we can tell the prevailing winds on that day.
