Minoans and Mycenaeans

Linear A tablet, Ancient Minoan

Kamares-Ware Jar with Fish, Crete, 1800-1700 BC

Palace of Knossos, crete, 1400-1100 BC

Bull Leaping Fresco from at Knossos, Crete, 1400 BC

Bull-leaping Figure, 1500 BC. Ivory

Griffin, from
Throne Room at
Knossos, 1450 BC

Landscape with Swallows (Spring Fresco), Thera, 1650 BC

Snake Goddess or Priestess, 1500 BC

Palaikastro Youth (young god?), Crete,
1500-1475 BC. Chryselephantine

Minoan Marine Pottery, 15th C BC

Bull’s Head Rhyton, 1500 BC, ritual artifact

The Harvesters Vase, 1500-1400 BC,
Hagia Triada

Sarcophagus from Hagia Triada, 1370-1320 BC

Lion Gate of Mycenae, 13th C BC

Treasury of Atreus, Mycenae, Greece, 1300-1250 BC

Gold Death Mask (Mask of Agamemnon), 16th Century BC

Inlaid dagger blade with lion hunt, Mycenae, 1600-1500 BC