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A Minoan graffito found at Tel Haror on a vessel fragment is either Linear A or Cretan hieroglyphs. [72] Several tablets inscribed in signs similar to Linear A were found at Troy in northwestern Anatolia. While their status is disputed, they may be imports, as there is no evidence of Minoan presence in the Troad.
Cretan hieroglyphs are a hieroglyphic writing system used in early Bronze Age Crete, during the Minoan era.They predate Linear A by about a century, but the two writing systems continued to be used in parallel for most of their history. [1]
The Linear A tablet PH-1 that was originally found by archaeologist Zakarias Iliakis next to the Phaistos Disc [3]. The Phaistos Disc was discovered in the Minoan palace-site of Phaistos, near Hagia Triada, on the south coast of Crete; specifically the disc was found in the basement of room 8 in building 101 of a group of buildings to the northeast of the main palace.
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. [1] [2] Labrys (Greek: λάβρυς, romanized: lábrys) is, according to Plutarch (Quaestiones Graecae 2.302a), the Lydian word for the double-bitted axe
17th-century engraving of Scylla falling in love with Minos. Minos appears in Greek literature as the king of Knossos as early as Homer's Iliad and Odyssey. [2] Thucydides tells us Minos was the most ancient man known to build a navy. [3]
The snake goddess's Minoan name may be related with A-sa-sa-ra, a possible interpretation of inscriptions found in Linear A texts. [25] Although Linear A is not yet deciphered, Palmer [clarification needed] relates tentatively the inscription a-sa-sa-ra-me which seems to have accompanied goddesses, with the Hittite išhaššara, which means ...
The Cypro-Minoan syllabary (CM), more commonly called the Cypro-Minoan Script, is an undeciphered syllabary used on the island of Cyprus and at its trading partners during the late Bronze Age and early Iron Age (c. 1550–1050 BC).
He points to the presence of Minoan royal emblems, the full scale griffins, and the large representation of the female in the skirt might suggest a political marriage between Thutmose III and a Minoan princess. [6] The paintings are unique. They are one of a kind, and they compare with artwork from Knossos.