ARTH 2102 Lecture 6: ARTH2102 Lecture Notes
31 Jan 2017
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Miniature fleet fresco (entire) east side room 5. All 4 sides were decorated in separate friezes. Owner of the house was lightly associated with the voyage. Landscape and waterscape is conceived from a birds eye view. Banks of the river have deer running from a lion. In antiquity there was 7 major branches from the nile into the mediterranean. Small boat with a similar shape to the others, with a little rack rowers. Polynesian dugout canoes - long and narrow. Designed to carry lots of men, going fast. Not merchant ships not a trading venture. Bores tusk helmets hunters or great soldiers. One ship looks like a round merchant ship. Ship decorated with birds ying along it. Might be a eet coming back from war. The owner of the house may have been associated with naval activity. Xeste: describes the construction of the building. Wall painting suggest the site may have had a religious use.
