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September 6, 2005
Mmmmmm, Minoans
I got to teach the Hagia Triada Sarcophagus today -- and the students did quite well with it. We looked at heaps of other objects (see the link below to see quite a few of them) and worked by comparison to other objects to figure out what's going on -- which figures are human and which are statues (look at the figure on the right)? What might the double axes (left end) mean? What are the so-called "horns of consecration" (they're on the back, sorry) likely to tell us about a building? Great fun and good for them -- I think they understand me when I say "you know, sometimes we art historians just make it all up" better now.
You want to list museums I'd like to visit? Put the Archaeological Museum of Herakleion, Crete down for me. What a collection of neat stuff!
Posted by CrankyProfessor at September 6, 2005 11:31 AM