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Bath in Palace of Nestor. The Palace of Nestor (Modern Greek: Ανάκτορο του Νέστορα) was an important centre in Mycenaean times, and described in Homer's Odyssey and Iliad as Nestor's kingdom of "sandy Pylos". [1] The palace featured in the story of the Trojan War, as Homer tells us that Telemachus:
His work at Mycenae earned him a positive reputation and in 1922, he was hired by Sir Arthur Evans to work on the recording and reconstruction of the palace at Knossos on Crete. In the role of excavation architect, de Jong succeeded Theodore Fyfe (architect at Knossos from 1900-1904) and Christian C.T. Doll , expanding considerably on their ...
The disaster that struck the Mycenaean centers at the end of the Bronze Age affected Tiryns, but it is certain that the area of the palace was inhabited continuously into the early Archaic period, until the middle of the 8th century BC (a little later a temple was built in the ruins of the palace).
Pages in category "Mycenaean art" ... Mycenaean figurine on tripod; Mycenaean palace amphora with octopus (NAMA 6725) N. Nestor's Cup (Mycenae) P. Mycenaean pottery;
Cases 11, 12, 17 and 18 contain fragments of the palace's wall paintings. On the walls over the cases there are painting recreations of the wall paintings by Piet de Jong. Jong was an architect and designer with the British School at Athens, who worked on several Mycenaean and Minoan sites. [3]
The remains of the Palace of Nestor at Pylos, Messenia – the centre of the Pylian polity. Eritha is associated with the site of Sphagianes (Mycenaean Greek: 𐀞𐀑𐀊𐀛, syllabic transcription pa-ki-ja-ne) [a] Sphagianes is known through the Linear B records of the Eb, Ep, En and Eo series, which record landholdings there.
Palace feast: 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 Pylos Combat Agate is a Minoan sealstone of the Mycenaean era, likely manufactured in Late Minoan Crete. It depicts two warriors engaged in hand-to-hand combat, with a third warrior lying on the ground. [1] [2] It was discovered in the Griffin Warrior Tomb near the Palace of Nestor in Pylos and is dated to about 1450 BCE. [3]
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