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Minoan art is often described as having a fantastical or ecstatic quality, with figures rendered in a manner suggesting motion. Little is known about the structure of Minoan society. Minoan art contains no unambiguous depiction of a monarch, and textual evidence suggests they may have had some other form of governance.
The Minoan language is the language (or languages) of the ancient Minoan civilization of Crete written in the Cretan hieroglyphs and later in the Linear A syllabary. As the Cretan hieroglyphs are undeciphered and Linear A only partly deciphered, the Minoan language is unknown and unclassified.
Linear A is a writing system that was used by the Minoans of Crete from 1800 BC to 1450 BC. Linear A was the primary script used in palace and religious writings of the Minoan civilization.
Minoan art is the art produced by the Bronze Age Aegean Minoan civilization from about 3000 to 1100 BC, though the most extensive and finest survivals come from approximately 2300 to 1400 BC. It forms part of the wider grouping of Aegean art , and in later periods came for a time to have a dominant influence over Cycladic art .
Minoan gold votive double axe or labrys, less than 4 inches tall. On the left blade is an inscription in undeciphered Linear A; posssibly an invocation to the goddess Demeter. On the left blade is an inscription in undeciphered Linear A; posssibly an invocation to the goddess Demeter.
Minoan religion was the religion of the Bronze Age Minoan civilization of Crete. In the absence of readable texts from most of the period, modern scholars have reconstructed it almost totally on the basis of archaeological evidence such as Minoan paintings , statuettes, vessels for rituals and seals and rings .
Minoan: MM IIIB: Heraklion: Composite scene of acrobatics over a galloping bull. The best of a series of similar scenes, the Taureador Frescos. Cat and Pheasant: Hagia Triada: Minoan: LM I: Heraklion: A cat on the right side of some ivy-covered rocks stalks a pheasant with its back turned on the left. Cat and Pheasant: Knossos: Minoan: LM I ...
Amnisos, also Amnissos and Amnisus (Greek: แผμνισฯς or แผμνισσฯς; Linear B: ๐๐๐๐ฐ A-mi-ni-so), [1] is the current but unattested name given to a Bronze Age settlement on the north shore of Crete that was used as a port to the palace city of Knossos. It appears in Greek literature and mythology from the earliest times ...