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Mycenae, Lion Gate |
Late Bronze Age 0.11. ArchitectureRelief sculptureAshlar Masonry - no mortar used1350 BCPost & LintelApotropaic - ward off evil2 heraldic lions flanking column
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Onouphrios Ware jug |
Early Bronze Age 1.1Beak-spouted jugdark-on-light simple linear decorationEM I from Aghios Onouphrios
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Stone jug (right) |
Early Bronze Age 1.7Pottery, JugStoneworkMade with drill & sanded with emeryMochlosEM IIMochlos
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Vasilike Ware |
Early Bronze Age 1.9reddish-brown
wash with mottled effect from burning as decoration (dark spots)Pottery, cup & jugClay?Vasilike
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Cycladic figurines (similar) |
Early Bronze Age 1.10Some had painted decorationFigurines/SculptureMarbleSpedos, cycladic islandsEC IIworked from thin rectangular blocks of marble
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'Frying Pan' |
Early Bronze Age 1.14incised decoration and impressed trianglespotteryterracottaSyros, cycladic islandsEC IIfertility charm/containership w/ fish at end, spirals, triangles, female genitalia
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Terracotta hedgehog |
Early Bronze Age 1.15pottery & sculpturedark on light w/ simple linear patterningterracottasyros, cycladic islandszoomorphic
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Faience plaques |
Middle Bronze Age 2.3architecture?dark on light?plaquefrom Faiencefound underneath flooring at Knossos palaceMM II
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Snake goddesses |
Middle Bronze Age 2.1sculpture in the roundbrightly colored with geometric shapesfrom Faiencefound at Knossos in stone-lined pits, the "temple repositories"MM III
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House model |
Middle Bronze Age 2.4incised, windows show interest in air and ventilation; opennessarchitectureterracottaarkhanesLM I
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Kamares Ware cup
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Middle Bronze Age 2.12pottery, cup"eggshell ware", wheel-madelight on darkMM IIwhite scale pattern, natural world motifs like abstracted floral buds
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Plaster Female head |
Late Bronze Age 3.1painted plaster sculpturemycenaeLH IIIB
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Knossos |
Late Bronze Age 3.2architectureLM Mainland Crete
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Bull-leaping fresco |
Late Bronze Age 3.6polychrome, painted plaster?wall paintingfrescofrom Knossosbull sportsLM I
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Gold and Ivory statue |
Late Bronze Age 3.12statuettechryselephantine (ivory & gold working)gold & ivory (body & garments), serpentine & rock crystal (head and eyes)from PalaikastroLM Ipossible cult image, deity, or votive dedication
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