V. Aegean Civilizations
The Artistic and Material Cultures of the "Sea in the Middle of the Earth"
DU1701 Periods of Art History I
AEGEAN CIVILIZATIONS
Northern frontier of the Mycenaean - civilization at its greatest extent circa 1250 BC
PROPONTIS
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MESSENIA «Sparta : Gulf<??       Senphos        Paros Naxos
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Kydonia (Khania).
Carpathos
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50
75 mi
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Crete
Knossos Monastiraki* A
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AETOLIA
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.Peristeria Cythnos K
MESSENIA .Sparta   Gulf of       Seriphos      LAp^0Ss N~
Vaphio-\\   Are°»s MYRTOUM SaUa&i3 Na*°s
SE/A
Phylakopi
Melos
Andros Tenos
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Inc.
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Kydonia (Khania).
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Crefe
Knossos Monastiraki* A
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Cycladic cultures, ca. 3200 - ca. 1050 BCE
Cycladic female figure, 1,49 m, ca. 2800 - 2300 BCE Museum of Cycladic Art, Athens
Seated harp player, Late Early Cycladic I-Early Cycladic II, 2800-2700 BCE, marble, H: 29.21 cm Metropolitan Museum, New York
Seated Harp Player of the Early Spedos Type, 2700-2300 BCE, marble, 35.8 x 9.5 x 28.1 cm The J. Paul Getty Museum, Villa Collection, Malibu, California
AEGEAN CIVILIZATIONS
Northern frontier of the Mycenaean - civilization at its greatest extent circa 1250 BC
PROPONTIS
Minoan cultures, 3000 - 1100 BCE
Knossos
Drawing of the island with an active volcano by Russian monk Barskij, 1745
Reconstruction of the West House as seen from the north &c plan of the second floor of the West House
A reconstruction of the perspective proposed by Thomas F. Strasser (2010) - Thera prior to the Bronze Age volcanic eruption), with its inundated caldera as seen from its east lip. (Drawing by Doug Faulmann)
AEGEAN CIVILIZATIONS
Northern frontier of the Mycenaean - civilization at its greatest extent circa 1250 BC
PROPONTIS
Minoan cultures, 3000 - 1100 BCE
Knossos
Procession fresco from Knossos (heavily restored)
Kamares-style pottery, ca. 2100-1700 BCE / Heraklion Archaeological Museum, Crete
Vessel made of clay with octopus, sea urchins, seaweed and rocks, ca 1500-1450 BCE, from Palekastro (Crete) / Heraklion Archaeological Museum, Crete
"Bull-leaping" fresco, from the Palace at Knossos, fresco on stucco, ca. 1450 BCE, 78,2 x 104,5 cm
Heraklion Archaeological Museum
AEGEAN CIVILIZATIONS
Northern frontier of the Mycenaean - civilization at its greatest extent circa 1250 BC
THRACE
PROPONTIS
Mycenian Civilization, c. 1600 - ca. 1100 BCE
Mycenae
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yrtos
Figure 10. Enlarged drawing of the Combat Agate, as it appears on the face of the sealstone.
Drawing T. Ross; courtesy Department of Classics, University of Cincinnati
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Funerary masks, from the tombs of Myceniae, ca. 1600-1450 BCE