AHIS 120gp Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Bull-Leaping, Rhyton, Sistrum
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Figure of a woman: a simple looking figure of a woman. These were offering to a god and a ritualistic use is come forth from the marking on them. Not a maternal in her shape and virginal from her slender delicate proportions. Palace complex: it is(cid:374)"t (cid:272)ertai(cid:374) that it (cid:449)as a ki(cid:374)g"s pala(cid:272)e, (cid:271)ut prosperous people li(cid:448)ed here a(cid:374)d (cid:449)as a (cid:272)o(cid:373)(cid:373)er(cid:272)ial (cid:272)e(cid:374)ter. There (cid:449)as a(cid:374) elite group (cid:449)ho (cid:272)o(cid:374)trolled the trade. There are no military subjects which means they were really good at negotiating peace. There are no major entrances and the building often changed directions and very different from axiality from egyptian houses. The greek legend explained that nenos required yearly payment of 7 young men and woman to be fed to a minotaur that was kept there. The trade was in wine, grain, honey, oil. It was a prosperous trade and some of them arranged around the courtyard.
