6 / 8 September 2011
Aegean: Cycladic [c. 3000 – 2000 BCE]; Minoan [c. 1900 – 1450 BCE]; Mycenaean
[c. 1600 – 1100 BCE]
Reading 84 – 105
Terms
Aegean and Minoan:
Dressed Stone
Buon Fresco
Fresco Secco
Lost-Wax Casting
Rhyton
Mycenaean:
Megaron
Repoussé
Tholos
Chevron
Corbel Vault
Ashlar Masonry
I. Cycladic
Cycladic “Plank” Figures, c. 2500 – 2200 BCE (p. 85)
Seated Harp Player, c. 2700 – 2500 BCE (p. 86)
II. Minoan
A. Old Palace Period
Palace Complex at Knossos, Crete, c. 1900 – 1700 BCE (Old Palace occupation),
rebuilt and occupied c. 1700 – 1450 BCE (New Palace occupation) – images of plan,
aerial view, reconstruction drawing, “light wells,” columns, store room, frescoes on
interior walls
Kamares Ware Jug, c. 2000 – 1900 BCE (p. 89)
Pendant of Gold Bees, c. 1700 – 1550 BCE (p. 89)
B. New Palace Period
Priestess Offering Cake in a Bowl, wall painting (fresco) from the West House,
Akrotiri, Thera, c. 1630 BCE
Young Girl Gathering Saffron Crocus Flowers, wall painting (fresco) from the House
Xeste 3, Akrotiri, Thera, before 1630 BCE (p. 90)
Landscape (Spring Fresco) from Akrotiri, Thera, before 1630 BCE (p. 91)
Bull Leaping from the Palace Complex at Knossos, Crete, c. 1550 – 1450 BCE (p. 92)
Woman or Goddess with Snakes, c. 1700 – 1550 BCE (p. 92)
Harvester Vase, c. 1650 – 1450 BCE (p. 93)
Bull’s head rhyton, c. 1550 – 1450 BCE (p. 94)
Vapheio Cup, c. 1650 – 1450 BCE (p. 95)
III. Mycenean
A. Architecture
Citadel at Mycenae (aerial overview), site occupied c. 1600 – 1200 BCE, walls built
c. 1340, 1250, 1200 BCE (p. 96 – 97)
Lion Gate at Mycenae, c. 1250 BCE (p. 100 – 101)
Megaron of the Palace at Pylos, c. 1300 – 1200 BCE (p. 98)
Plan of the Palace at Pylos
Tholos (“Treasury”) of Atreus, c. 1300 – 1200 BCE (p.99)
B. Sculpture
Mask of “Agamemnon,” c. 1600 – 1550 BCE (p. 102)
Dagger Blades from Tomb Burials, c. 1550 – 1500 BCE (p. 103)
Warrior Vase, c. 1300 – 1100 BCE (p. 104)