The Aegean 3000-1100bce Cycladic c. 3000-11 th century bce Cycladic idol Minoan c. 3000-1100 bce Knossos Sir Arthur Evans Labyrinth, Minotaur Faience Kalamares.

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The Aegean bce Cycladic c th century bce Cycladic idol Minoan c bce Knossos Sir Arthur Evans Labyrinth, Minotaur Faience Kalamares ware Thera Mycenean c bce Megaron Troy Heinrich Schliemann Mycenae Helladic – Hellas, Hellens Agamemnon Homer Cyclopean Grave circle Bee hive tomb Corbel vaults repoussé

THE AEGEAN c – 1100 bce Cycladic Minoan Mycenaean

Cycladic Figures c bce

2700 bce 12”

Minoan c bce

Kamares Ware & Other ceramics c bce 11” (L)

Bull Rhytons, steatite, 1500 bce 12”

The Minotaur Theseus & Ariadne c bce (c.500 bce – 1 st century bce)

Snake Goddesses c bce 12” clay & faience

Snake Goddess c bce 12” clay & faience

Palace at Knossos c bce (final destruction) (labyrinth)

Ariel View of Ruins, Palace at Knossos

Sir Arthur Evans

Reconstructed Columns, Knossos

Pithoi Storage containers

Copper pipes for indoor plumbing

Bull leaping fresco, restored c bce Knossos

Labrys - double axe

“Throne Room” Knossos c bce

Queen’s “Megaron” Knossos c bce

Thera, (Santorinin) 1650 bce Discovered 1960’s Note line on ibex

Thera, Girl gathering saffron, c bce

Spring Fresco, Thera c bce

Gold Flower from Mochlos

Gold Bee Pendant, c bce, 2” Granulation technique

Minoan or Mycenean? Vaphio Cups, gold repoussé, 4”, c bce

The Mycenaeans c BCE

Heinrich & Sophie Schliemann TROY

9 Levels of Troy – Level 6 the Troy of Homeric Legend c BCE

Mycenaean Warriors & Arms

Mycenaean Sword Hilt Mycenaean Sword Hilt c bronze inlaid w/ gold, silver & niello

Ariel View Mycenae BCE

Mycenae

Mycenae BCE c.13th Cyclopean stonework

Lion Gate, Mycenae c. 13th bce

Treasury of Atreus? Bee hive Tomb or Tholos w/ corbel vaulting c. 13th bce

Treasury of Atreus? Bee hive Tomb Or Tholos w/ corbel vaulting c. 13th bce

Treasury of Atreus? Bee hive Tomb or Tholos w/ corbel vaulting c. 13th bce

corbel vaulting

Reconstruction of Mycenae Goddess with Snakes from “chapel”

Cyclopean Walls Mycenae

Grave Circle, Mycenae

Gold repoussé masks shaft grave, 12” c bce

Megaron

Nestor’s Palace Warrior Vase, clay, 16” c.1100 bce

Dorians c bce -- Myceneans