Egypt - Minoan Concepts

Minoan Concepts

Map of Crete

showing the locations of Minoan sites, with the major palaces in red

View of ount Ida

the sacred mountain of Zeus in Crete

Comparative size and plans of the palaces of Knossos,

Mallia, and Phaistos, left to right

Seal impressions from Evans’ “hieroglyphic deposit”

at Knossos

The mysterious “Phaistos Disk”

It carries a heiroglyphic inscription which eludes translation but due to the refrain like grouping of several sets of symbols, probably represents a prayer of a hymn

Clay tablets inscribed with Linear A script, from Knossos

this undeciphered script probably represents the Minoan language

Clay tablets from Knossos inscribed with Linear B script.

Michael Ventris was able to decipher it in the 1950’s. It represents an early form of the Greek language used by the Mycenaeans

This ceramic model house of Archanes shows us

what a Minoan dwelling might have looked like

Plan of the site of

Palaiokastro, Crete