Beruflich Dokumente
Kultur Dokumente
Paleolithic
Dark
Archaic
Classical
Coin from Gnossus, a city on the north coast of the Island of Crete
Knossos Palace
"Prince of lilies" or "Priest-king Relief", plaster relief at the end of the Corridor of Processions
Gold necklace beads from the cemetery at Archanes Phourni, Late Minoan III period. Herakleion Archaeological Museum
Minoan Terracotta
Bull horns . religious symbol in the Cretan Minoan culture (2000 BCE - 1450 BCE) palace of Knossos
The Hagia Triada sarcophagus. late Bronze Age. 1400 BC. limestone . rediscovered in Hagia Triada on Crete
Wall painting from the tomb of Methethi, Saqqara, Ancient Egypt, Old Kingdom, c2371-2350 BC.
Osiris-Apis
Shiva's Bull..
(Sa Huynh) . .
columns at Knossos
Minoan "Palace style," vessel (ca. 15th century BCE, Athens National Museum)
Stirrup jar with octopus, (ca. 12001100 b.c.; Late Helladic IIIC, The Metropolitan Museum of Art)
Terracotta rhyton painted in "Marine Style" with murexes (Zakros, Late Minoan IB, ca. 1525/1500-1450 B.C.) (Courtesy Onassis Public Benefit Foundation)
1600-1580 B.C. (Late Minoan I) Palace of Knossos, Crete; now in the Herakleion Museum, Crete
Minoan sarcophagi from Aghia Triada decorated with the double-axe, the sign of transcendence and the afterlife
Mycenian-Minoan gold ring (Archeological Museum, Athens), four emissaries from the other world (or Egypt?), wearing animal masks, bring ritual presents to the Queen