Artist: n/a Title: Two figures of women Medium: Marble Size: heights 13" (33 cm) and 25" (63.4 cm) Date: c. 2500–2200 BCE Source/Museum: Cyclades. / Museum of Cycladic Art, Athens. Courtesy of the N. P. Goulandris Foundation.
Front and back views of a marble figurine of Late Spedos type Front and back views of a marble figurine of Late Spedos type. 2600-2400 BC.
Statuette from the Louros on Naxos, Grotta-Pelos culture.
LEFT: Cycladic head RIGHT: Modigliani head, c. 1917
LEFT: Cycladic head RIGHT: Constantin Brancusi Sleeping Muse 1909-10 Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture
Early cycladic figure types Top: types of the Gotta-Pelos culture. Middle: types of the Keros-Syros culture. Bottom: types of the Phylakopi I culture.
Artist: n/a Title: Seated Harp Player Medium: Marble Size: height 11 ½" (29.2 cm) Date: c. 2700–2500 BCE Source/Museum: Keros, Cyclades / Museum of Cycladic Art, Athens
LEFT: Beaked Kamares jug, c. 1800 BCE OLD PALACE PERIOD Height 10 5/8” Archaeological Museum, Heraklion, Crete RIGHT: Title: Octopus Flask Medium: Marine style ceramic Size: height 11" (28 cm) Date: c. 1500–1450 BCE Source/Museum: Palaikastro, Crete / Archaeological Museum, Iraklion, Crete
Artist: n/a Title: Knossos, aerial photograph of the site
Above: Aerial view of Knossos Below: Title: Reconstruction of the palace complex, Knossos, Crete
Plan of the Palace at Knossos, Crete, c. 1600-1400 BC
Plan of the Palace at Knossos, Crete, c. 1600-1400 BC
KNOSSOS
LEFT: Title: Knossos Interior. Reconstruction of palace interior staircase RIGHT: Knossos grand staircase leading to royal chamber (shield frescoes in the distance) .
Artist: n/a Title: Woman Or Goddess with Snakes Medium: Faience Size: height 11⅝" (29.5 cm) Date: New Palace period, c. 1700–1550 BCE Source/Museum: As restored, from the palace complex, Knossos, Crete / Archaeological Museum, Iraklion, Crete
Artist: n/a Title: Woman Or Goddess with Snakes Medium: Faience Size: height 11⅝" (29.5 cm) Date: New Palace period, c. 1700–1550 BCE Source/Museum: As restored, from the palace complex, Knossos, Crete / Archaeological Museum, Iraklion, Crete
Artist: n/a Title: Young Girl Gathering Saffron Crocus Flowers Medium: Detail of wall painting Size: n/a Date: 1630 BCE Source/Museum: Room 3 of House Xeste 3, Akrotiri, Thera / Thera Foundation, Petros M Nomikos, Greece (ON ISLAND OF THERA, part of Cyclades, where Minoan influence spread)
Artist: n/a Title: Young Girl Gathering Saffron Crocus Flowers Medium: Detail of wall painting Size: n/a Date: 1630 BCE Source/Museum: Room 3 of House Xeste 3, Akrotiri, Thera / Thera Foundation, Petros M Nomikos, Greece (ON ISLAND OF THERA, part of Cyclades, where Minoan influence spread)
Artist: n/a Title: Landscape (Spring Fresco) Medium: Wall painting with areas of modern reconstruction Size: n/a Date: Before 1630 BCE Source/Museum: From Akrotiri, Thera Cyclades / National Archaeological Museum, Athens
Artist: n/a Title: Landscape (Spring Fresco) Medium: Wall painting with areas of modern reconstruction Size: n/a Date: Before 1630 BCE Source/Museum: From Akrotiri, Thera Cyclades / National Archaeological Museum, Athens
Artist: n/a Title: Bull Leaping Medium: Wall painting with areas of modern reconstruction Size: Height approx. 24 ½" (62.3 cm) Date: Late Minoan period, c. 1550–1450 BCE Source/Museum: From the palace complex, Knossos, Crete / Archaeological Museum, Iraklion, Crete
Artist: n/a Title: Harvester Vase Medium: Steatite Size: diameter 4 ½" (11.3 cm) Date: New Palace Period, c. 1650–1450 BCE Source/Museum: Hagia Triada, Crete / Archaeological Museum, Iraklion, Crete
Artist: n/a Title: Bull’s-Head Rhyton Medium: Steatite with shell rock crystal and red jasper the gilt-wood horns restored Size: height 12" (30.5 cm) Date: c.1550–1450 BCE Source/Museum: Palace complex, Knossos, Crete / Archaeological Museum, Iraklion, Crete
Title: Vapheio Cup Medium: Gold Size: height 3 ½" (3.9 cm) Date: c. 1650–1450 BCE Source/Museum: Found near Sparta, Greece / Archaeological Museum, Iraklion, Crete
Map of Mycenae (and Crete and Cyclades)
Title: Citadel at Mycenae (Aerial View) Date: Site occupied c. 1600–1200 BCE; walls built C. 1340, 1250, 1200 BCE
Artist: n/a Title: Reconstruction of Citadel At Mycenae
Artist: n/a Title: Lion Gate, Mycenae Medium: Limestone relief Size: height of sculpture approx. 9' 6" (2.9 m) Date: c. 1250 BCE Source/Museum: n/a
Artist: n/a Title: Pylos Palace Plan, c. 1300–1200 BCE
Artist: n/a Title: Reconstruction Drawing of The Megaron In The Palace At Pylos Greece. C. 1300–1200 Bce Medium: n/a Size: n/a Date: n/a Source/Museum: Drawing in Antonopouleion Archaeological Museum, Pylos
Artist: n/a Title: Entrance to the Tholos, the so-called Treasury of Atreus Medium: n/a Size: n/a Date: c. 1300–1200 BCE Source/Museum: Mycenae, Greece
Artist: n/a Title: Cutaway Drawing of Tholos Medium: n/a Size: n/a Date: n/a Source/Museum: n/a
Artist: n/a Title: Corbeled Vault, Interior of Tholos Medium: Limestone vault Size: height approx. 43' (13 m), diameter 47'6" (14.48 m) Date: n/a Source/Museum: n/a
Artist: n/a Title: “Mask of Agamemnon” Medium: Gold Size: height approx. 12"(35 cm) Date: c. 1600–1550 BCE Source/Museum: Funerary mask, from the royal tombs, Grave Circle A, Mycenae, Greece / National Archaeological Museum, Athens
Artist: n/a Title: Two Women with A Child Medium: Ivory Size: height 2¾" (7.5 cm) Date: c. 1400–1200 BCE Source/Museum: Found in the palace at Mycenae, Greece, / National Archaeological Museum, Athens
Artist: n/a Title: Warrior Vase Medium: Ceramic Size: height 16"(41 cm) Date: c. 1300–1100 BCE Source/Museum: n/a