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| The remains of an ancient Minoan city on the island of Thera in the Aegean Sea, where abundant pottery and frescoes of the second millennium b.c. have been excavated. |
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| An arm of the Mediterranean Sea between Greece and Turkey. |
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| A Greek island group in the Aegean Sea, south-east of the mainland of Greece; and a former administrative prefecture of Greece. They are one of the island groups which constitute the Aegean archipelago. |
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| A monster, the offspring of Pasiphaë and the Cretan bull, that had the head of a bull on the body of a man: housed in the Cretan labyrinth, it was fed on human flesh until Theseus, helped by Ariadne, killed it. |
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| A vast maze built in Crete by Daedalus, at the command of King Minos, to house the Minotaur. |
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Stone that has been worked to desired shape; the faces to be exposed are smooth; usually ready for installation.
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| A ruined city on N central Crete; capital of the ancient Minoan civilization. |
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| A British archaeologist most famous for unearthing the palace of Knossos on the Greek island of Crete and for developing the concept of Minoan civilization from the structures and artifacts found there and elsewhere throughout eastern Mediterranean. Evans was the first to define Cretan scripts Linear A and Linear B, as well as an earlier pictographic writing. |
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| German archaeologist: excavated ancient cities of Troy and Mycenae. |
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| Of or pertaining to the ancient civilization of the island of Crete, dating from about 3000 to 1100 b.c.e. |
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| Named for finds in the cave sanctuary at Kamares on Mt. Ida in 1890. It is the first of the virtuoso polychrome wares of Minoan civilization, though the first expressions of recognizably proto-Kamares decor predate the introduction of the potter's wheel. |
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| A motif of Middle Bronze Age figurative art, notably of Minoan Crete, but also found in Hittite Anatolia, the Levant, Bactria and the Indus Valley. It is often interpreted as a depiction of a ritual performed in connection with bull worship. This ritual consists of an acrobatic leap over a bull; when the leaper grasps the bull's horns, the bull will violently jerk his neck upwards giving the leaper the momentum necessary to perform somersaults and other acrobatic tricks or stunts. Another interpretation could be that bull-leaping is a rite of passage for young men in this Minoan culture. |
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| The process by which a metal (such as silver, gold, brass or bronze) sculpture is cast from an artist's sculpture. |
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| To insert or apply (layers of fine materials) in the surface of an object |
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| Delicate ornamental work of fine silver, gold, or other metal wires, especially lacy jewelers' work of scrolls and arabesques. |
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| (Of a design) Raised in relief by hammering on the reverse side. |
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| A black metallic substance, consisting of silver, copper, lead, and sulfur, with which an incised design or ground is filled to produce an ornamental effect on metal. |
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| The gold leaf or other material with which something is gilded. |
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| Gold in the form of very thin foil, as for gilding. |
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| Sheets of gold slightly thicker than gold leaf. |
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| An ancient Greek drinking horn, made of pottery or metal, having a base in the form of the head of a woman or animal. |
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| An ancient Egyptian percussion instrument consisting of a looped metal frame set in a handle and fitted with loose crossbars that rattle when shaken. |
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| An innovation in the embellishment of Cretan pottery, developed around 1500 bc and characterized by the depiction of octopuses and other sea creatures. Possibly originating at Knossos, marine style pottery began to rival older plant and flower designs and was exported from Crete all over the Cyclades and the Greek mainland, where its freshness eventually gave place to a somewhat debased formalism. |
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| An ancient city in S Greece, in Argolis: important ruins. |
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| An ancient city in S Greece: the capital of Laconia and the chief city of the Peloponnesus, at one time the dominant city of Greece: famous for strict discipline and training of soldiers. |
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| Of or pertaining to the Bronze Age culture on the mainland of ancient Greece c2900–1100 b.c. |
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| A building or semi-independent unit of a building, generally used as a living apartment and typically having a square or broadly rectangular principal chamber with a porch, often of columns in antis, and sometimes an antichamber or other small compartments. |
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| A fortress that commands a city and is used in the control of the inhabitants and in defense during attack or siege. |
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| Any of three sites in Greece. The most important of them is identified with the modern Pilos (or Navarino, locally called Neokastro), the capital of the eparkhia ("eparchy") of Pylia in the nomos (department of Messenia), Greece, on the wouthern headland of the Ormos (bay), a deepwater shipping channel on the southwest coast of the Peloponnese. |
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| A Greek epic poem describing the siege of Troy, ascribed to Homer. |
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| An epic poem attributed to Homer, describing Odysseus's adventures in his ten-year attempt to return home to Ithaca after the Trojan War. |
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| An impressive "tholos" tomb on the Panagitsa Hill at Mycenae, Greece, constructed during the Bronze Age around 1250 BCE. The lintel stone above the doorway weighs 120 tons, the largest in the world. The tomb perhaps held the remains of the sovereign who completed the reconstruction of the fortress or one of his successors. The grave is in the style of the other tholoi of the Mycenaean World, of which there are nine in total around the citadel of Mycenae and five more in the Argolid. However, in its monumental shape and grandeur it is one of the most impressive monuments surviving from Mycenaean Greece. |
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| A grave consisting of a deep, rectangular pit with vertical sides, roofed over with a stone slab. |
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| A Mycenaean tholos tomb is: "a circular, subterranean burial chamber ... roofed by a corbelled vault and approached by an ... entrance passage that narrows abruptly at the doorway actually opening into the tomb chamber." |
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| A badge consisting of stripes meeting at an angle, worn on the sleeve by noncommissioned officers, police officers, etc., as an indication of rank, service, or the like. |
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An ancient symbol of eternity, infinity, endlessness, appears often enough in the wall paintings of Thera,
on friezes, on ships, on altars but also on pottery found in Akrotiri... They are suggested to represent the “chain of life”, birth-death-regeneration without beginning or ending. |
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| A structure having the form of a vault but constructed on the principle of a corbel arch. |
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| A squared building stone cut more or less true on all faces adjacent to those of other stones so as to permit very thin mortar joints |
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| A king of Mycenae, a son of Atreus and brother of Menelaus. He led the Greeks in the Trojan War and was murdered by Clytemnestra, his wife, upon his return from Troy. |
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| A mixing bowl characterized by a wide mouth and body with two handles projecting vertically from the juncture of the neck and body, used to mix wine and water. |
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