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They have the advantage of mostly being excavated in a more complete condition, still on their walls, than Minoan paintings from Knossos and other Cretan sites. Most of the frescos are now in the Prehistoric Museum of Thera on Santorini, or the National Archaeological Museum of Athens, which has several of the most complete and famous scenes.
Frescos first appear in the "Neopalatial Period", in MM IIIA, at the same time as the peak sanctuaries seem to have become less used; [40] the Knossos "Saffron Gatherer" (illustrated below) may be the earliest fresco to leave significant remains. [41]
A saffron harvest is shown in the Knossos palace frescoes of Minoan Crete, [27] which depict the flowers being picked by young girls and monkeys. One of these fresco sites is located in the "Xeste 3" building at Akrotiri , on the Aegean island of Santorini —the ancient Greeks knew it as "Thera".
Knossos: Minoan: LM I: Heraklion: A miniature fresco showing the facade of the Tripartite Shrine bordering on the Central Court of the palace at Knossos, surrounded by men in a red wash background and some women in an ivory background. Some ladies shown seated. Supporting pillars at sides possibly of a grandstand. The court is walled.
The "saffron-gatherer" fresco, from the Minoan site of Akrotiri on Santorini. Very little is known about the forms of Minoan government, particularly since the Minoan language has not yet been deciphered. [92] It used to be believed that the Minoans had a monarchy supported by a bureaucracy. [93]
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Louis Émile Emmanuel Gilliéron was born on 24 October 1850 in Villeneuve, Switzerland, [1] the second of four sons of Jean-Victor Gilliéron and Méry Ganty. [2] His father, a language professor in the Progymnasium in La Neuveville near Bern, and later in the Gymnasium for girls in Basel, was also a respected amateur geologist and paleontologist.
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