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![A Visual Glossary of Greek Pottery](https://www.worldhistory.org/img/c/p/360x202/1205.jpg?v=1672137062)
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A Visual Glossary of Greek Pottery
Alabastron (pl. alabastra) - a small jar for storing perfumes, named after the material (alabaster) the first examples were made from. They were often carried by a string looped around the neck of the vessel. Amphora (pl. amphorae...
![Minoan Horns of Consecration](https://www.worldhistory.org/img/c/p/360x202/688.jpg?v=1618751709)
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Minoan Horns of Consecration
Bull horns were a common religious symbol in the Cretan Minoan culture (2000 BCE - 1450 BCE), represented in fresco, on pottery and as here from the palace of Knossos, in architectural stone decoration.
![Minoan Snake Goddess, Knossos.](https://www.worldhistory.org/img/c/p/360x202/398.jpg?v=1714419303)
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Minoan Snake Goddess, Knossos.
Faience figurine of the Minoan Snake Goddess - her dominion was over nature and fertility. New-Palace period (1600 BCE). Heraklion Archaeological Museum, Crete.
![Minoan Rhyton](https://www.worldhistory.org/img/c/p/360x202/380.jpg?v=1715620863)
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Minoan Rhyton
Stone rhyton (libation vase) in the form of a bull's head from the Minoan site of Knossos, New-Palace period (1600-1500 BCE), Heraklion Archaeological Museum, Crete.
![Akrotiri Frescoes](https://www.worldhistory.org/img/c/p/360x202/1361.jpg?v=1638528302)
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Akrotiri Frescoes
The Bronze Age frescoes from Akrotiri on the Aegean island of Thera (modern-day Santorini) provide some of the most famous images from the ancient Greek world. Sometime between 1650 and 1550 BCE Thera suffered a devastating earthquake which...
![Minoan Bull Leaping](https://www.worldhistory.org/img/c/p/360x202/396.jpg?v=1719242048)
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Minoan Bull Leaping
A fresco showing bull leaping, Minoan Knossos (Final Palatial period 1450-1400 BCE), Heraklion Archaeological Museum, Crete.
![Minoan Bee Pendant](https://www.worldhistory.org/img/c/p/360x202/885.jpg?v=1718223188)
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Minoan Bee Pendant
A solid gold Minoan pendant depicting two bees clutching a honeycomb, Old Palace cemetery at Chrysolakkos near Malia, Crete, 1800-1700 BCE.
Herakleion Archaeological Museum, Crete.
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Ancient Greece
Greece is a country in southeastern Europe, known in Greek as Hellas or Ellada, and consisting of a mainland and an archipelago of islands. Ancient Greece is the birthplace of Western philosophy (Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle), literature...
![Minoan Rock-Crystal Bowl](https://www.worldhistory.org/img/c/p/360x202/1391.jpg?v=1618477206)
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Minoan Rock-Crystal Bowl
A Minoan rock-crystal bowl in the form of a duck, 16th century BCE. The vessel was found at Mycenae but has been attributed to the earlier Minoan civilization based on Crete. The vessel was probably used to store cosmetic creams. (National...
![Minoan Gold Ring](https://www.worldhistory.org/img/c/p/360x202/892.jpg?v=1713468606)
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Minoan Gold Ring
An engraved gold ring from the Minoan civilization on Crete, 15-14th century BCE. The ring probably originates from Knossos and depicts the epiphany of a goddess: seated in a shrine, floating in the air and standing in a boat. The hoop is...