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Frescoes from Akrotiri

Minoan art in the Cyclades in the 17th century BC

Akrotiri on Thera (Santorini) before the volcanic explosion (1628 BC?), mature Late Cyacladic I period

Wall paintings, floors, paintings on ritual objects

Frescoes from Akrotiri in the Prehistoric Museum of Thira

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Xeste 3 (mostly ritual scenes)

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Women's ritual of saffron picking

Xeste 3, Room 3, 1st floor

Strictly speakingː Saffron is a product prepared from Crocus.

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Girl, monkey and Goddess

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  Girl with the basket
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  Goddess with griffin accepts crocus ofered to her by the hand of the monkey
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  Goddess with a full basked, on the adjacent panel
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Saffron gatherers

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Women's rite of passage

Xeste 3, Room 3, Ground floor (in the adytum area)

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Ritual with crocus

So called Adorants fresco

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Boy's rite of passage

Xeste 3, Room 3, Ground floor (in the adytum area)

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Others

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  Rosettes
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  Frieze with double running spiral

See Xeste 3 in Akrotiri

West House

At the Triangle square (the most famous are the frescoes from room 5)

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Room 4

Captain's cabins

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Red lilies frescos

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  Near window
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  Stone vase with red lilies
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  Threshold, fresco mimics a marble

Priestess fresco

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Room 5

West House, Room 5

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Fisherman fresco

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Fisherman (2) fresco

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Assembly on the hill and the shipwreck

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Ship procession fresco

aka The Flotila fresco, Fleet fresco or Maritime festival (Nautical celebration)

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Details

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The River fresco

East frieze of the Room 5, West House

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Others

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  Frescos mimics a marble facade
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Fragmets of Architecture frescoes

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See West House in Akrotiri

House of the Ladies

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Frescoes of the Ladies

Two ladies

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Papytrus fresco

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See House of Ladies in Akrotiri

Building Complex Beta

Blue monkeys

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Cows

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  Rather other animals
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See Building Complex Beta in Akrotiri

From other places in Akrotiri

Fragments of frescoes

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  The African
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  Alectoris graeca?
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  Fragment of an altar
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  Early 17th century BC
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  Early 17th century BC

Small ritual tripod

Sacrificial tripod. Offering table with dolphins. Pumice stone with painting. Inv. no. MPTh 3860 (catal. 253).

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The painting process

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Frescoes from Akrotiri in the National Archaeological Museum of Athens

Spring fresco

BE 1974.29 (Collection of Prehistoric Antiquities, inv. no ΑΚΡ 1977.29) from house Delta, Room D 2, the room measures 2.3 by 2.5 metres

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  left wall
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  Detail of swallow
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  front wall
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  Detail of swallows
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See Building Complex Delta in Akrotiri

Boxers

from the Complex Beta, Room B 1

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  Boxing children
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See Building Complex Beta in Akrotiri

Antelopes frescos

from the Complex Beta, Room B 1

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Small ritual tripod

Sacrificial tripod. Offering table with dolphins. Pumice stone or pottery?

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