Richter, Gisela M. A. 1953. Handbook of the Greek Collection. pp. 16, 171, pl. 11h, Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press.Picón, Carlos A. 2007. Art of the Classical World in the Metropolitan Museum of Art: Greece, Cyprus, Etruria, Rome
Archanes, Burial Building 6. 2000 - 1900 BC Seals were used for accounting purposes, to control the production and distribution of goods and to certify transactions. This multi-sided bone seal was a funerary offering found in Burial Building 6 at Archanes Phourni. It is an impressive example of the so-called “Archanes Script”, a writing system
Banded agate cushion-shaped seal | Minoan | Late Minoan IIIA | The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Heraklion Archaeological Museum - CollectiveAccess System : Clay objects : Clay juglet with Hieroglyphic inscription [Π11149]
Hematite lentoid seal engraved with a design of one human in front of a cow (no sex indicated), and another leaping over its back.
A Linear B tablet from Knossos recording precious metal vessels in the shape of bull's heads and cups, around 1375-1350 BC.
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Geology of Santorini volcano island, Greece -- caldera, Minoan, history, archaeology, eruption, catastrophe
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Perhaps the inspiration for Atlantis, Minoan civilization born on the island of Crete spread throughout the Mediterranean before it mysteriously collapsed.
Ahhh. There is absolutely nothing like the smell of fresh bread, hot from the oven. Add butter and I'm in heaven. Yet with so many of us on gluten-free diets because of gluten intolerance or celiac disease—and with some arguing that eating grain is literally killing us even if we're not gluten-intolerant or celiac sufferers—well it seems…
GR-Argos, Archäologisches Museum Grabungs-Nr. L 5.912 | Arachne
Pottery kylix (Furumark Shape 257). Painted with brown wavy octopus tentacles (FM 21) filled with dots. Band at rim, three thick band on the stem and two on the feet. Painted on the handle.
Heraklion Archaeological Museum - CollectiveAccess System : Clay objects : Rhyton with flower-shaped rim and painted decoration [Π22105]
Heraklion Archaeological Museum - CollectiveAccess System : Clay objects : Clay cylindrical stand for vessels with religious symbols [Π8404]
Heraklion Archaeological Museum - CollectiveAccess System : Bone/Ivory : Ivory mirror handle with relief recumbent sphinx [Ο-Ε172]
Heraklion Archaeological Museum - CollectiveAccess System : Stone objects excluding Sculptures : Stone conical rhyton [Λ336]
