ARTH 2150 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Pithos, Knossos, Rhyton
19 Sep 2013
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Old palaces are destroyed by earthquake and rebuilt for the new palace period. After another major destruction knossos was only rebuilt (post palace) Propylon/lea monumental gateway (column or pillar support) Tripartite shrine formed of 3 sections. Faience new material, invented and produced in egypt, sandy glass paste used for small plaques (faience plaques appear in knossos (trade)) Times literary supplement (1980) biers * * * assignment. Today knossos is a sinlge building with multi-levels and multi-rooms. Note the colour, larger at the top than bottom (reconstructed columns) 2 paved roads that come into a paved plaza, significant b/c pavement is really expensive and really doesn"t exist anywhere at all. 2 roads come together into 1 singular road with walls on either side. This is significant b/c breaking through hills at this time would"ve been hard and expensive. Moved from architectural theatre that is wide open into the largest enclosed space you"ve ever been in.
