Minoan art
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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
Kamares ware jug, AMH, MM IA (c. 2000 BC).
The "Battle of the Glen" gold ring shows the Minoan landscape convention, with rocks above and below. Buried at Mycenae.
Marine Style vase from Palaikastro, AMH.
Octopus on an anchor or weight in porphyry, LM, AMH
Hagia Triada Sarcophagus
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The Hagia Triada Sarcophagus is a late Minoan 137 cm -long limestone sarcophagus, dated to around 1400 BC or some decades later, excavated from a chamber tomb at Hagia Triada, Crete in 1903 and now on
The other face
Side view
Scene on the "rear" side, with bull sacrifice