The Aegean 3000 1100 bce Cycladic c 3000

The Aegean 3000 -1100 bce Cycladic c. 3000 -11 th century bce Cycladic idol Minoan c. 3000 -1100 bce Knossos Sir Arthur Evans Labyrinth, Minotaur Faience Kalamares ware Thera Mycenean c. 1600 -1100 bce Megaron Troy Heinrich Schliemann Mycenae Helladic – Hellas, Hellens Agamemnon Homer Cyclopean Grave circle Bee hive tomb Corbel vaults repoussé

THE AEGEAN c. 3000 – 1100 bce Cycladic Minoan Mycenaean

Cycladic Figures c. 2700 -2300 bce

2700 bce 12”

Minoan c. 1600 -1400 bce

Kamares Ware & Other ceramics c. 2000 + bce 11” (L)

Bull Rhytons, steatite, 1500 bce 12”

The Minotaur Theseus & Ariadne c. 1600 -1300 bce (c. 500 bce – 1 st century bce)

Snake Goddesses c. 1600 bce 12” clay & faience

Snake Goddess c. 1600 bce 12” clay & faience

Palace at Knossos c. 2000 -1375 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. 1500 bce Knossos

Labrys - double axe

“Throne Room” Knossos c. 1500 bce

Queen’s “Megaron” Knossos c. 1500 bce

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

Thera, Girl gathering saffron, c. 1500 bce

Spring Fresco, Thera c. 1600 bce

Gold Flower from Mochlos

Gold Bee Pendant, c. 1700 bce, 2” Granulation technique

Minoan or Mycenean? Vaphio Cups, gold repoussé, 4”, c. 1600 bce

The Mycenaeans c. 1600 - 1000 BCE

TROY Heinrich & Sophie Schliemann

9 Levels of Troy – Level 6 the Troy of Homeric Legend c. 1300 BCE

Mycenaean Warriors & Arms

Mycenaean Sword Hilt c. 1500 bronze inlaid w/ gold, silver & niello Mycenaean Sword Hilt

Ariel View Mycenae 1600 -1200 BCE

Mycenae

Mycenae 1600 -1200 BCE c. 13 th Cyclopean stonework

Lion Gate, Mycenae c. 13 th bce

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

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

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

corbel vaulting

Reconstruction of Mycenae Goddess with Snakes from “chapel”

Cyclopean Walls Mycenae

Grave Circle, Mycenae

Gold repoussé masks shaft grave, 12” c. 1500 bce

Megaron

Warrior Vase, clay, 16” c. 1100 bce

Dorians c. 1100 bce -- Myceneans