Europe's First Civilization - The Minoans Documentary + artifacts

CRETE

Linear A Texts

b. I-DA-DA

CR(?) Zf 1 (Ayios Nikolaos Mus. 9675) (GORILA IV: 146-147, 162), gold pin (LM IA stylistic date); reverse carries a long, wavy tendril to which are attached opposing clusters of trefoil flowers or leaves (cf. KN Zf 1)

A-MA-WA-SI • KA-NI-JA-MI • I-JA • QA-KI-SE-NU-TI • A-TA-DE

Bronze double axe ca. 1600–1450 B.C.

Minoan

On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 171

CR Zf 5 (AM 1936.562; Raison-Pope 1994, p. 243), bronze double ax

JA

CR Zg 3 (?) (Hermitage 511; CMS XI, no. 311: burnt amydaloid sealstone).

VINum+[•]/FIC

JGY: doubtful signs

CR Zg 4 (NY Metropolitan Museum; CMS XII 96; (Raison-Pope 1994, p. 242-3, confirmed by del Freo 2012: 14), reel seal of steatite, inscriptions read from the impression.

a. A-RO-TE 

Steatite spindle whorl ca. 2400–1900 B.C.

Agate Lentoid ca. 1450–1400 B.C.