CLASS254 Lecture 9: Class 6
22 Nov 2016
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Akrotiri, the west house, the flotilla fresco. Akrotiri, the west house: the shipwreck fresco: north wall room 5: foreigners attack one of the coastal towns. Men with long shields and boar tusk helmets defend: only battle scene that they have really found with boar tusks as helmets. Important elements of minoan wall painting: 1. Generally not warlike, aggression lacking, except one of the flotilla paintings: they don"t really see many war-like scenes except for the shipwreck scene. It was a type of vase that was traded around. Carved stone: wealthier people made and developed these because you need more tools. Linear a: minoan script was an administrative script, the language is non indo-european, we are dealing with a prehistoric society", the idea of hieroglyphic may have come from ancient egyptian script. In minoan crete, we start to find script in their vases/creations.
