ARTH 2150 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Dreadlocks, Hagia Triada, Phaistos Disc
25 Sep 2013
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* * *kamares found in the kamares cave shrine. Palaikastro pilgrim flask old castle, old style ceramic flask for pilgrimage use. All the other palaces on crete have large central courtyards, storage rooms and columnar halls largest of them all is knossos. One thing that none of the palaces have are fortification walls. All these palaces have unfinished rooms in the process of being built when the new palace period ended possible b/c they don"t have fortification walls holding them in. There"s no threat military peace at the time possible, protected by the sea, has a navy, Palaces function as a central depot, lots of trade. Phaistos disk unique, nothing else like it in the world, spiral from outside to inside (or v. v. ), filled with symbols, unsure if it"s a language or not. At knossos we find linear a and b. Only a couple hundred examples of linear a, been worked on for 100 years and still undecipherable.
