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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".
English: The "Blue Boy" or the "Saffron-Gtherer". Minoan fresco from Knossos. The fresco restoration according to Evans, where the blue figure was identified as a young boy. Above the rear of the body is visible tail.
Bull-leaping, very much centred on Knossos, is agreed to have a religious significance, perhaps to do with selecting the elite. The position of the bull in it is unclear; the funeral ceremonies on the (very late) Hagia Triada sarcophagus include a bull sacrifice. [123] The saffron may have had a religious significance. [124] [better source needed]
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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Minos Kalokairinos (Μίνως Καλοκαιρινός, 1843, Heraklion - 1907, Heraklion) was a Cretan Greek businessman and amateur archaeologist known for performing the first excavations at the Minoan palace of Knossos. [1] His excavations were continued later by Arthur Evans. [2]