3 impressive photos of the Bull Fresco Portico Knossos, taken by Richard while he was there on May 1 2012:![]()
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Knossos, Queen’s Megaron restored, Third Palace, Late Minoan IIIb (ca. 1450 BCE) Post 3 of 3:
Knossos, Queen’s Megaron restored, Third Palace, Late Minoan IIIb (ca. 1450 BCE) Post 2 of 3:
Columns from the Late Minoan IIIb Palace (ca 1450 BCE) Post 2 of 2:![]()
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Columns from the Late Minoan IIIb Palace (ca 1450 BCE) Post 1 of 2:
Knossos building with perfect circular rosettes on its frieze!![]()
This building is remarkable for the typically Greek (or if you prefer, Minoan) simplicity of its architecture. What really struck me while I was visiting Knossos on the afternoon of May 2 2012 was that the circular rosettes on its frieze are perfectly circular, each one exactly identical to the next. It seems the Greeks inherited the mania for geometric simplicity fro their forbears, the Minoans.
More photos follow in the next post.
Photo series of the Second Palace of Knossos (ca. 1700-1600 BCE) # 2 Here again you see a set of three photos of the rear stairwells of the Second Palace, which are very well preserved... indeed, so well preserved that even the ruins of Pompeii cannot boast of such restoration. The third photo shows that the interior wall structure of the Second Palace was pretty much identical with the Third, with door jambs in the same style and of the same colour. Unquestionably, the columns of the Second Palace must have looked pretty much identical to those of the Third. You can clearly see from the third and fourth photos that much of the structure of the retaining walls of the Second Palace was left intact by the Minoan engineers when they constructed the Third. The retaining walls of the Second Palace are distinct, insofar as they are rounded at the corners.![]()
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