Minoan and Mycenaean ArtThis survey describes and illustrates in detail all the significant works of art and architecture of ancient Crete and Mycenae and of the Cycladic Islands. An important event in the history of archaeology was the discovery by Heinrich Schliemann in 1876, of the treasures in the citadel of Mycenae - the home of the legendary King Agamemnon. The excavations of Sir Arthur Evans in 1900, at the palace of King Minos of Knossos was equally important archaeologically. Such treasures that were found are frescoes and gold funeral masks from the third and second millenia BC. This revised edition includes greater coverage of the frescoes from Akrotir, on the island of Thera. Other recent findings are described and illustrated in detail, such as the unique ivory figurine from Palaikastro, objects from the palace of Mallia and the intriguing discovery of Minoan-style frescoes in Egypt. |
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Aegean animals Asia Minor Athens beads bowl British Museum British Museum photo bull carved clay coloured contemporary Crete Cycladic Cycladic period Cyprus daggers decorated Early Cycladic Early Helladic Early Minoan Egyptian embossed engraved example excavated faience fifteenth century BC figurines frescoes goblet goddess gold granulation Grave-Circle Greek Hagia Triada hand-made Height Helladic period Ialysus inlaid island ivory jewellery Knossos Late Bronze Age Late Minoan lentoid Lerna Mainland Greece Mallia marble Marine Style Middle Minoan Minoan period Mochlos motives Mycenae Mycenaean Empire niello originally ornament painted palace at Knossos palace at Zakro patterns pendant Peter Clayton Phaestos Photo by courtesy Piet de Jong pottery probably Pylos rhyton rock-crystal scenes second palaces Shaft-Grave shape shown in Ill silver so-called spirals spouted statuettes stirrup-jars storage-jars surviving Syros terracotta thirteenth century BC tholos tomb Tiryns Treasury of Atreus Vapheio vessels Ware Zakro