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the Aegean connection

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Colin McEvedy, The Penguin Atlas of Ancient History (Harmondsworth [Middlesex]1967), p 35

Dimini, Thessaly, c 3700-3300 BC: plan, from the excavations, and reconstruction
Donald Preziosi & L A Hitchcock, Aegean Art and Architecture (Oxford 1999), p 34 Ioanna Phoca & Panos Valavanis, Rediscovering Ancient Creece: Architecture and City Planning (Athens 1999), p 13

the Aegean world, g , 2250 BC & 1600 BC

McEvedy, Penguin Atlas of Ancient History, pp 25, 31

Troy & the megaron y g

Troy
(modern Hisarlik, Turkey) Reconstruction of Troy IIG, IIG c 2300 BC

Seton Lloyd Early Highland Lloyd, Peoples of Anatolia (London 1967), p 35

early megara
Flon , World Atlas of Archaeology, p 183

the megaron g
part plan of Troy II, showing megarons and gates, c 2300 BC Greek houses of the Middle Helladic period, 1900-1600: (a) Korakou, t ( )K k two superimposed, (b) Ol i d Olympia i
D S Robertson, Greek and Roman Architecture (2nd ed, Cambridge 1969), p 21 A W Lawrence, Greek Architecture (Harmondsworth [Middlesex] 1957), p 54

the megaron
Building C, Troy VI (c1800-1200 BC, with central column
Robertson, Greek and Roman Architecture, p 24

various megara from Syria, Bronze to early Iron Age

Christine Flon [ed], The World Atlas of Archaeology (London 1985), p 193

more sophisticated planning: suites of rooms, porticoes, staircases ,p ,

Royal palace of Ebla, Syria, 3rd millennium BC: reconstructed from partial excavations y p , y , p
Flon , World Atlas of Archaeology, p 183

Kultepe & Beycesultan p y

so-called megaron, Kultepe [or Kanesh], Kanesh] modern Turkey Late Early Turkey, Bronze Age, c 2200 BC: probably Luvian, and probably a temple plan and axonometric
J G Macqueen, The Hittites (London 1986 [1975]), p 30 y y g p Seton Lloyd, Early Highland Peoples of Anatolia (London 1967)

Sophisticated planning: multiple l lti l levels, with l ith staircases; corridors; colonnaded courtyards

Palace at Beycesultan on the Upper Meander (in the state of Arzawa), modern fA ) d Turkey, C19th BC, Hittite: reconstruction

Akurgal, A i t Ci ili ti Ak l Ancient Civilizations, p 298

the Hittites Hittit

Hattusas, the Hittite capital in Anatolia (northern Turkey), modern Bogazky mainly c1400-1200 BC view from the vicinity of the Sphinx Gate
Miles Lewis

Hattusas: plan

Akurgal, Ancient Civilizations, p 298

Hattusas: view and plan of the acropolis [Bykkale]

Miles Lewis Akurgal, Ancient Civilizations, p 300

Hattusas: remains of building D, Bykkale, C13th: view & plan

Miles Lewis Akurgal, Ancient Civilizations, p 300

building D, Bykkale, Hattusas, C13th plan of surviving foundations; reconstruction plan with i l ih columns; reconstructed interior view.
Kurt Bittel, A Guide to Bogazky (Ankara, no date), p 27

Anatolian building traditions

the modern the village of Alaa Hoyk

Miles Lewis

Temple of Hatti & Arinna, Hattusas, C13th BC view and section of the underground pool, showing triangular corbelled construction t ti

Macqueen, The Hittites, p 121

Temple of Hatti (weather god) and Arinna (sun goddess), Hattusas, C13th BC plan of the complex (left) and detail plan of the main temple building (right)
Henri Frankfort, The Art and Architecture of the Ancient Orient (Harmondsworth [Middlesex] 1954), p 119 Hugh Plommer, Ancient and Classical Architecture (London 1963), p 91

Temple of Hatti & Arinna Hattusas, C13th BC plan of the complex; view of storage magazines, and restoration of the masonry temple base
Henri Frankfort, The Art and Architecture of the Ancient Orient (Harmondsworth [Middlesex] 1954), p 119 Miles Lewis Akurgal, Ancient Civilizations, p 305

sphinx from the Sphinx Gate, Hattusas

Macqueen, The Hittites, p 140

Lion Gate, Hattusas view & detail of one lion

Miles Lewis

City walls, Hattusas, reconstruction of portion, and modern view Miles Lewis

Hattusas: section of wall and postern tunnel

Macqueen, The Hittites, p 67

postern tunnel, Hattusas outer doorway & interior view

Miles Lewis

Royal or Kings Gate, Hattusas, from inside

Miles Lewis

Hattusas, Royal Gate view from outside, and reconstruction

Miles Lewis Plommer, Ancient and Classical Architecture, p 90

Chamber 2 or Hieroglyph Chamber, Hattusas, ? C13th BC H tt ?c detail of arch

Miles Lewis

HATTUSAS

CRETE C

the ancient near east

Henri Frankfort, The Art and Architecture of the Ancient Orient (Harmondsworth [Middlesex] 1954), rear endpaper

the Minoan civilisation [Crete]

Neolithic culture from 3000 B C flowering of Minoan culture 1600-1400

the sacred bull

bulls head rhyton, or drinking horn, Herakleion Museum bulls head crenellation f from the Palace of Knossos f
Herakleion Museum, no 8 Miles Lewis

the sacred labyros, or double-headed axe, axe carved in a pillar at the Palace of Knossos, before 1400 BC

Miles Lewis

Palace of King Minos, Knossos, mainly c 1600-1400 BC, reconstruction view 1600 1400
unsourced: from a poster

Knossos, the stepped portico, portico restoration view by Costis Iliakis

postcard, Editions M t t d Editi Moutsas

Palace of Knossos, plan

A W Lawrence, Greek Architecture (Harmondsworth [Middlesex] 1957), pp 32-3

Palace of Knossos, reconstruction of part of the west wing, facing the great court
By F G Newton, reproduced in A J Evans, 'The Palace of Knossos and its Dependencies in the light of recent Discoveries and Reconstructions', Journal of the Royal Institute of British Architects, XXXVI, 3 (8 December 1928), p 96

Palace of Knossos
lustral basin at the north-west entrance entrance to the southern royal tomb
Knossos' slide set, nos 1, 12

Palace of Knossos reconstructed west bastion of the north entrance view & detail of the entablature

Lewis, Architectura, p 239 Miles Lewis

Palace of Knossos, state apartments

plan staircase from the central court

Plommer, Ancient and Classical Architecture, p 76 'Knossos' slide set, no 4

Palace of Knossos the King's private suite cutaway axonometric view colonnaded portico inner chamber
Plommer, Ancient and Classical Architecture, p 78 13,878 13,877

Palace of Knossos, kings staircase

view of the top reconstructed elevation

Miles Lewis
Robertson, Greek and Roman Architecture, p 15

Palace of Knossos, the Toreador fresco, c1500 [now in the Herakleion Museum]
H W & Dora Janson, A History of Art (London 1962), p 60

Palace of Knossos, griffin frieze in relief [now in the Herakleion Museum]

Miles Lewis

Palace of Knossos, the throne room

Miles Lewis

Palace of Knossos Detail of the griffin fresco in the Throne Room

Lawrence, Greek Architecture, pl 6

Palace of Knossos, portion of the stucco relief ceiling P l fK ti f th t li f ili [now in the Herakleion Museum] and reconstruction. comparative running spiral and banded meanders from a tomb at Deir al-Modina, Egypt, c 1200 BC
Miles Lewis Mil L i Lawrence, Greek Architecture [1957], pl 1B Miles Lewis

Minoan period fresco of a townscape from Thera (Santorini)

Phoca & Valavanis, Architecture and Planning, p 19

faience plaques of houses from Knossos

Anna Michailidou, Knossos: a Complete Guide to the Palace of Minos (Athens 2004), p 31

Tylissos House C (Middle Minoan IIIB- LM 1A/B), c 1600 BC, isometric drawing d i

Preziosi, Aegean Art, p 119

Model of a house from Arhanes, end of MM period, c1600 [Herakleion Museum]: views & diagram
Miles Lewis; Phoca & Valavanis, Architecture and Planning, p 21; A W Lawrence [revised R A Tomlinson], Greek Architecture (5th ed, New Haven [Connecticut] 1996), p 1

model column from Kaniniya, post palatial or LM III, Herakleion Museum

Miles Lewis

the Mycenaean culture

c 1400-1200 BC on mainland Greece especiall M cenae & Greece, especially Mycenae y Tiryns Minoan characteristics, like the downwardtapering column more primitive megaron planning

the Acropolis, Tiryns, c1300, with the 'Great Megaron Megaron' at the centre
plan and reconstruction

MUAS 15,653 11,011

Tiryns, alabaster frieze and other fragments from the Great Megaron
Robertson, Greek and Roman Architecture, p 31

Tiryns, modern view of walls & restoration

MUAS 14,817 10,750

Mycenae, c 1400 BC: distant view

Jeff Turnbull 1974

Mycenae, view and reconstruction of the acropolis

MUAS 13,362, 11,011 , , ,

Mycenae, plan of the acropolis

MUAS 15,655

Mycenae, plans of the Palace and the House of Columns

Lawrence, Greek Architecture [1957], p 76, 74

Mycenae, entrance to an y underground cistern within the walls, c13501330

Miles Lewis

Mycenae, royal grave circle modern view & reconstruction

Jeff Turnbull Lawrence, Greek Architecture [1957], p 76

bronze d b dagger f from M Mycenae, G Grave V

MUAS 17,168

Lion Gate, Mycenae, c1250 BC

Lawrence, Greek Architecture [1996], p 49

detail of the Lion Gate, Mycenae

Preziosi & Hitchcock, Aegean Art and Architecture, p 187

ivory plaque for inlay decoration, House of the Sphinxes, Mycenae. National Museum, Athens, no 7525 view & reconstruction Detail of the Lion Gate Mycenae Gate,
Miles Lewis Preziosi & Hitchcock, Aegean Art and Architecture, p 187

fragments of fluted column and chamfered half column. f t f fl t d l d h f d h lf l National Museum, Athens, nos. 7529, 7591
Miles Lewis

so-called Treasury Atreus Mycenae, so called Treasury of Atreus, Mycenae c 1325

MUAS 13,767

Treasury of Atreus view during the initial excavation, and cutaway diagram

Spiro Kostof [revised Greg Castillo], A History of Architecture: Settings and Rituals (New York 1995 [1985]) p 104 [1985]), Talbot Hamlin, Forms and Functions of Twentieth-Century Architecture, I, The Elements of Building (New York 1952), p 308

Treasury of Atreus, plan and section

Robertson, Greek and Roman Architecture, p 74

Treasury of Atreus y reconstruction elevation of doorway fragments in the National Museum, Athens
Lawrence, G k Architecture [1957] p 60 L Greek A hit t [1957], Miles Lewis

the Greek world in 670 BC

detail from McEvedy, Penguin Atlas of Ancient History, p 47