Snake Goddess/Attendants

From Knossos

MMIII

Faience

1 foot

Bare-breasts, bell shaped skirt, belt, apron, snakes, hat

depends on geometric shapes

Formality and naturalism

nature worship

mother goddess

Hedgehog from Syros

ECII

Terracotta

4 inches

Naturalism, humor

Knossos “throne room”

Crete

LMI

small and intimate

"initiation rites?"

High backed "throne" chair flanked by frescoes depicting huge griffins

Main shrine (w/horns of consecration) is small, but where they got the snake goddesses

Seatign for others all around the edge

Ritual purposes

Bull Leaping Fresco (3.8)

LM I fresco (restored) From Knossos

shows bull sport

two white figures may or may not be women, depending on interpretation of use of skin colour in art

painted on dry plaster then sealed (sucks)

movement and naturalism are characteristic of both bull and figures

Harvester Vase

from aghia triadha

LMI 4 inches diameter

rhyton of steatite

Elderly man w/ long hair, cerimonial dress and staff lead workmen carrying winnowing fans at the back a figure shakes a sistrum

sense of movement and flow, gayity

no sense of porportion in figures

Marine style Pilgrim Flask from Palaikastro

LMIB 1 ft

dark on light (instead of light on dark as previously preferred)

lively free-floating argangements

sense of movement (compared to panalled vases of similar scenes seen later in the palace style)

Phaistos disk

MMIII/LMI

terracotta

6 inches in diameter

can't read but found with pottery and a linear A tablet

spirals in with stampe characters which are blocked off

fuck if we know

Aghia Triada Sarcophagus

1400 BCE

Painted limestone

height of figured scene=6 inches

Shows minoan religion

shows libation, double axes, birds,

shows belief in life after death (cult of the dead)

Rhyton showing hilltop sanctuary from Zakro

LMI

serpentine 9 inches

Hilltop nature worship.

Mask of Agamemnon

Mycenae

LHI

old

10 inches

funerary mask, thought to be fake or altered, you know this one we did it extensively

Dagger blades from Grave Circle A, Mycenae

Bronze w/ gold, silver, and Niello inlay

LHI

6-9 inches long

Sudden appearance of wealth and weaponry suggests there may have been a raiding culture at Mycenae. Minoans played a role in creating artifacts that inriched the Mycenaen's lives

certain elements come from Crete/minoans (clean shaven figures, narrow waisted, lion hunting) but also have non-minoan elements (scenes of combat and hunt)

technique seems derived from syrian technique so this shows outside influence and importation

Megaron at Palace at Pylos (southern Peloponese)

13th century BCE

columns and paintings of myth creatures

hearth is main thing

minoan sources for some motifs (cycles of processions, architectural facades, court figures chatting, mythological beasts, musicians and bull-jumping) but others are uniquely Mycenaean such as scenes of hunt and combat with bizzare multi-coloured backgrounds

columns

huge

throne off to side

Female figurine from Karphi (crete)

1000BCE

Terracotta

2 ft

Came with shrine (alter figure?) for new refuge town of Karphi

Reconstruction of Heroon at Lefkandi

HEROON=site for worship of a hero

Apsidal 50 m by 10 m

Heroon from lefkandi (plan)

10th century BCE

Cemetary 9th century BCE

Centaur from Lefkandi

10th century

1ft

terracotta

wheel and hand made

has hollows in ears (most likely to garentee the head won't explode when fired and it was just the least weird place to put it)

head and body found in seperate graves.

clearly highly prized

eyes had inlay of either bone or shell

Geometric Krater from Dipylon Cemetery

athens

750 BCE

4ft

Geometric Amphora from Dipylon Cemetery

Athens

5 ft

750 BCE

Decorative friezes of geometric designs and grazing deer and seated goats-each animal an abreviated symbol-run around the pot

Most important scene, the prothesis (the laying out of the dead body on the funeral Bier)

Tearing of hair

geometric patterns are surely the visual counterparts of the formulas of homeric narrative:together they seem to articulate an underlying sense of striving for social and political order

“Macmillan” aryballos

Cornith

Perfume bottle

650 BCE

3 inches

5 registers

floraldesign in shoulders

striding and collapsing warriors in combat on body

a cavalcade (procession on horseback)

hares and hounds

upward pointing triangles (rays)

everything is drawn on a single plane with no thought to prespective

Chigi vase

650 BCE

10 inches

3 registers

polychromatic

humans, hounds, and hares

procession of chariot and horsemen and a lion hunt divided by a double bodied sphinx and a scene of the judgement of Paris

top register=lines of footsoldiers(hoplites)with interlocing sheilds and a phallenx

leaves out normal animal frieze for war scene

Shows the beginning of the ascendancy of drilled foot soldiers over cavalry.

Prime example of technique and style

Eleusis amphora

650 BCE

5 ft

INcreased interest expressed in Mythology

Gorgons persuing Perseus who is running off with Medusa's head w/ athena hindering the gorgons (triumph of the greek hero over the world of malignant monsters)

animal combat between lion and boar on shoulder

on neck Odysseus and companions blind the cyclops polyphemos. Odysseus is the main character and is thus drawn in white, procession of story told all at once with individual elements such as kater to show drunkeness

funerary purpose for a child (female child?)

Griffin protome

(attachment for cauldron)

Rhodes

700-675 BCE 1 ft

Mantiklos Bronze

votive or dedication to apollo

700-675 BCE

Thebes

Bronze still a coveted metal

cylindrical thighs, triangular torso, pyramidal neck, triangular face, and hemispherical crown, but is less flat and more in the round that predicessors

There is a familiarity to the inscription on the thighs between the god and the mortal, and the use of "me" suggests a life-like or livign quality to the bronze. Who the sculpture is of is unknown it may be generic.

Lady of Auxerre

640 BCE

Crete(probably)

was painted

limestone

2 ft

transition of the Deadalic style to stone instead of it's usual terracotta

front-facing, ridgity, and flatness

Common hairstyle for the timeperiod, not showing ears and forehead curls, divided vertical locks, knob like endings

Nikandre statue

from Delos

640BCE?

Marble

6 ft

still somewhat geometric, cleanness of form and easy structure and thinness-later traits of the naxian workshop

inscription shows pride in lineage, nikandre is not defined by her femaleness or her own accomplishments, but by her male relatives and her implied dependence (a way for male relitives to flaunt wealth?)

Dedicated to Artimis

Don't know who the statue is of (could be agalma=pleasing gift)

Daedalic style