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Chapter 2

Website 2.1: Horns of Consecration
Notice the possibility that the peak in the background (the site of a Peak Sanctuary) could have been deliberately framed by the horns.
http://www.hartzler.org/cc307/minoan/images/cd.jpg

Website 2.1b: Numerous Photos of Minoan Subjects
See especially the bull-leaping fresco and the bull-leaping diagram (sixth from the bottom of the list). In what other forms does the bull appear?
http://www.hartzler.org/cc307/minoan/index.html

Website 2.2: Linear A Script
This is a site by a software engineer whose hobby is ancient scripts.
http://www.ancientscripts.com/lineara.html

Website 2.4: The Palace at Knossos
This website offers plans and a summary of the stages of development of the palace. Compare these plans for the palace at Knossos with those for Phaistos and Mallia.
http://www.athenapub.com/11knoss.htm

Website 2.5: Thera (Santorini) and the Frescos
This website of the Hellenic Ministry of Culture provides views of the buildings and links to views of most of the most noted frescoes, with a virtual tour of the frescoes (search "flotilla" for the main picture of teh fleet).
http://www.therafoundation.org/wallpaintingexhibition/

Jeremy Rutter's Dartmouth website has a discussion of the eruption and the frescoes, with the linked images providing a number of views of the island and the site.
http://projectsx.dartmouth.edu/classics/history/bronze_age/lessons/les/17.html

Website 2.6: Chronology
This website, from which much of the chronology on pae 47 was takne, gives us useful correlation of vase types with periods:
http://www.odysseyadventures.ca/articles/knossos/articleKnossos03.chronology.html
Another version (there are many unresolved problems with the chronology):
http://essayweb.net/history/ancient/minoan.shtml

Maps

Map 2: Bronze Age: Minoan Crete (page 27)
     Blank Map 2 (page 355)