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    Minoan seals are impression seals in the form of carved gemstones and similar pieces in metal, ivory and other materials produced in the Minoan civilization...
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  • Minoan seal-stones Minoan religion Minoan Modi, a peak sanctuary in eastern Crete Minoan Bull-leaper, a bronze in the British Museum Cypro-Minoan syllabary...
    1,010 bytes (157 words) - 05:26, 22 February 2022
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    Phourni (category Minoan sites in Crete)
    of the seal stones are helpful in understanding Minoan religious practices or personality of the owner, depending on the scene of the seal stone. The 136...
    12 KB (1,582 words) - 17:35, 9 November 2023
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    1100 BC. Minoan art included elaborately decorated pottery, seals, figurines, and colorful frescoes. Typical subjects include nature and ritual. Minoan art...
    116 KB (13,771 words) - 01:21, 19 June 2024
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    Minoan pottery has been used as a tool for dating the mute Minoan civilization. Its restless sequence of quirky maturing artistic styles reveals something...
    44 KB (4,559 words) - 09:27, 14 June 2024
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    Minoan art is the art produced by the Bronze Age Aegean Minoan civilization from about 3000 to 1100 BC, though the most extensive and finest survivals...
    62 KB (7,816 words) - 12:54, 4 June 2024
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    settlements of Crete. The hound's ancestors are clearly depicted on Minoan seal stones, on ceramic and metallic utensils, ornamental objects, in sculptures...
    6 KB (562 words) - 18:23, 9 November 2023
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    Linear A (redirect from Minoan Linear A)
    A seal stones: a preliminary assessment of forms, materials, sequences, uses". Ariadne Supplement Series. ISSN 2623-4726. Erik Hallager, "The Minoan Roundel...
    70 KB (6,095 words) - 04:45, 18 June 2024
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    archaeological evidence of such as Minoan paintings, statuettes, vessels for rituals and seals and rings. Minoan religion is considered to have been...
    33 KB (4,576 words) - 16:21, 30 May 2024
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    Two Minoan snake goddess figurines were excavated in 1903 in the Minoan palace at Knossos in the Greek island of Crete. The decades-long excavation programme...
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    Different from the Minoan stamp-seals, the Indus stamp-seals probably have a different function from the stamp seals of the Minoan civilization, as they...
    4 KB (454 words) - 02:20, 14 February 2024
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    hieroglyphic writing system used in early Bronze Age Crete, during the Minoan era. They predate Linear A by about a century, but the two writing systems...
    21 KB (2,193 words) - 05:40, 31 May 2024
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    Malia (also Mallia) is a Minoan and Mycenaean archaeological site on the northern coast of Crete in the Heraklion regional unit. It is about 35 kilometers...
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  • The Cypro-Minoan syllabary (CM), more commonly called the Cypro-Minoan Script, is an undeciphered syllabary used on the island of Cyprus and at its trading...
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    The Minoan civilization in the Bronze Age (c. 3500–1100 B.C.E) was located on the island of Crete. Focusing on the palatial periods between c. 1900 and...
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    characteristic forms. By the Middle Minoan age a new set for seal forms, motifs and materials appear. Hard stone requires new rotary carving techniques...
    45 KB (5,623 words) - 02:56, 30 March 2024
  • Pylos Combat Agate (category Minoan archaeological artifacts)
    imported or stole riches from Minoan Crete, it is believed that the seal was created in Crete. The fact that the stone was found in a Mycenaean tomb in...
    11 KB (1,075 words) - 09:37, 19 March 2024
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    Lentoid (category Minoan art)
    with complex carving on lentoid stones. The lentoid shape was one of the most commonly recovered seal shapes from Minoan Knossos on Crete dating to the...
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    Gournia (category Minoan sites in Crete)
    site of a Minoan palace complex in the Lasithi regional unit on the island of Crete, Greece. Its modern name originated from the many stone troughs that...
    16 KB (2,061 words) - 05:22, 11 June 2024
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    Knossos (category Minoan sites in Crete)
    Bronze Age archaeological site in Crete. The site was a major center of the Minoan civilization and is known for its association with the Greek myth of Theseus...
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