CLST 200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Uluburun Shipwreck, Lion Gate, Hattusa
16 Oct 2013
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No written history of the mycenaean civilization: put it together based on artifacts. Uluburun shipwreck: seems to be an out of the ordinary ship, carrying a lot of varied materials, could have been an elite trade ship or a gift. Lion gate mycenae / hattusa: huge gateways, called lion because there were carvings of lions on the gates, mycenaeans may have adopted engineering / architectural skills from the east (hettites) Hattusa: upper town : common housing, lower town: high wealth, fortification walls. Hatti (hettite kingdom) c. 1300: capital mattusa fertile territory, high point, protected by mountains, western coast on the aegean, site called miletus by the greeks, wilusa: site of troy.
