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Minoan Woman or Goddess (La Parisiene)
1400-1370 BCE from the palace of Knossos Crete, Greece. It is a fragment of a fresco. Frescoes decorated the Knossos palace walls. This Fragment depicts a woman or Goddess perhaps a statue with a large frontal eye in her profile head as in Mesopotamian and Egyptian art.
Snake goddess
1600 BCE. From the palace Knossos(Crete) Greece. This figurine may represent a priestess,but is more likely a bare-breasted goddess. The snakes in her hands and the feline on her head imply that she has power over the animal world appropriate for a deity. The skirt is Minoan , the frontal is reminiscent of Egyptian and Mesopotamian statuary.
Funerary Mask, from Grave Circle A
1600-1500BCE from Grave circle A, Mycenae, Greece. Homer described the Mycenaeans as "rich in gold."This beaten gold mask of a bearer man comes from the royal shaft grave. Its is one of the first attempts at a life size sculpture in Greece.
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