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Vassiliki Ware
EM II
Little is known about EM architecture
Kamares Ware
MM II (1800-1750 BCE)
Late Kamares jar with palm trees
MM III (ca 1700 BCE)
Floral style jug
Phaistos
LM IA (ca 1700-1600 BCE)
Marine style stirrup jar
Palaikastro
LM IB (ca 1600-1500 BCE)
Palace style jar with double axes
Knossos
LM II (ca 1500-1450 BCE)
Palace style jar with Mycenaean helmet
Knossos
LM II (ca 1500-1450 BCE)
this piece is more geometric
more references to military
more warlike mindset?
Clay seal impression
Khania
ca 1500 BCE
city/palace scene with male figure
composite perspective (frontal eye on a side profile)
men had long hair
gives an aura of movement
Queen’s Megaron
Palace of Knossos
Dancing girl with flowing hair wall painting
Queens Negaron (Knossos)
ca 1550-1500 BCE
very small areas of the mosaic are preserved
there’s enough to figure out what was depicted and to reconstruct it
Dolphin fresco
Queen’s Negaron (Knossos)
ca 1550-1500 BCE
Snake goddess faience
“Temple Repositories” Palace of Knossos
ca. 1600 BCE
2 examples
more detailed features than those in Cycladic figures
bare chested and emphasized hourglass figure
communicative facial expression?
not a nude figure, rather fully clothed except for the chest
artist could have had mommy issues (interpretative leap)
could either be a divine woman representation (breast feeding was part of goddesses) or a sexually erotic artwork
Gold seal ring with ritual dance
Isopata
ca. 1600 BCE
Male figurine
Palaikastro (Kouros from Palaikastro)
ca. 1500
ivory, gold, serpentine, rock, crystal
Bull head rhyton
Knossos
ca 1500 BCE
Serpentine
rhytons were used for pouring libations for the dead. more symbolic like making an offering
Toreador fresco with gift bearers
Palace of Knossos
ca. 1500
gift bearers are light-skinned—are the female or male?
light-skinned usually means female
“Priest-King” relief painting
Palace of Knossos
ca. 1550 BCE
Processional fresco with gift bearers
Palace of Knossos
ca 1550 BCE
“La Parisienne” fragment from the “Camp Stool Fresco”
Knossos
ca 1500 BCE
Drawing of Camp Stool Fresco
Cat stalking a pheasant fresco
Hagia Triada
ca 1550 BCE
The Phaistos Disc
Palace of Phaistos
ca 1900-1700 BCE
Marble Amphora
Palace of Zakros
Libation Vase (rhyton)
Palace of Zakros
LM I (1550-1500 BCE)
Rhyton with peak sanctuary
Zakro
LM I (1550-1500 BCE)
serpentine (chlorite?)
shows a different way of representing distance'/depth in art
The “Chieftan’s Cup”
Hagia Triada
LM I (1550-1500 BCE)
serpentine
The Harvester Vase
Hagia Triada
LM I (1550-1500 BCE)
serpentine
The Hagia Triada sarcophagus
Hagia Triada
ca 1400 BCE
limestone with surface plastered and painted
