The Great Procession Fresco from Hagia Triada
April 13, 2024
Find spot: Crete, Hagia Triada, VillaggioDate: Late Minoan III [verify] Clothing depicted: Heanos with no jacket or overskirt
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The Hagia Triada Sarcophagus
April 13, 2024
Find spot: Crete, Hagia Triada, Necropolis, Tomb 4Date: 1370-1320 BCE Clothing depicted: Heanos with jacket and no overskirt; the priestesses wear a jacket and shaggy skirt, but the heanos hem is not visible, so it’s unclear whether they wear a heanos. The men wear shaggy skirts. The panel above contains two figures whose sex or gender puzzles me. […]
Ritual Fresco from Mycenae
April 13, 2024
Find spot: MycenaeDate: 1400-1200 BCE [verify] Clothing depicted: Fragmentary. Kilt; the top of the figure is missing. Unusual one-shouldered tied wrap; the figure is missing below the chest.
Two Women in Tiryns
April 13, 2024
Find spot: TirynsDate: Clothing depicted: Fragmentary. Heanos and kilt?
The Camp Stool Fresco/Libation Fresco
April 13, 2024
Find spot: Crete, Knossos, palaceDate: 1400-1350/1300 BCE Clothing depicted: Heanos with vertical decoration (“La Parisienne”), some kind of short tiered skirt (a kilt?) worn over a heanos (seated woman)
Procession Fresco from Thebes
April 13, 2024
Find spot: Thebes, the House of KadmosDate: 14th century? [verify this] Clothing depicted: Fragmentary, but appears to show heanos with kilt
Signet Ring with a Badly Drawn Woman with a Staff
April 13, 2024
Find spot: Pylos, the Mycenaean Griffin Warrior’s tombDate: c. 1450 BCE Clothing depicted: Probably a tiered skirt and heanos, but whomever carved this put more effort into the birds than the central figure.
Signet Ring with Seated Woman and Attendant
April 13, 2024
Find spot: Pylos, the Mycenaean Griffin Warrior’s tombDate: c. 1450 BCE Clothing depicted: The seated woman wears a skirt that has tiers and wraps around her legs like a kilt, but doesn’t have visible points. Probably a kilt. The attendant wears what appears to be a heanos with a horizontal line halfway up the skirt; this could represent […]
Signet Ring with Three Women in Procession to a Shrine
April 13, 2024
Find spot: Mycenae, near Nemea, the “Treasure of Aidonia”Date: Clothing depicted: Kilts worn over heanos with vertical lines
The Ring of Minos
April 13, 2024
Find spot: Crete, Knossos, the Gypsadhes HillDate: 15th-14th c. BCE Clothing depicted: Heanos, a skirt that has tiers and wraps around her legs like a kilt, but doesn’t have visible points. Probably a kilt. Also, unusually, a nude.
Snake Goddess Figurine with Bird on Hat
April 13, 2024
Find spot: Crete, Knossos, palaceDate: 1650-1550 BCE Clothing depicted: Heanos, tiered skirt, apron
Snake Goddess Figurine with Tall Hat
April 13, 2024
Find spot: Crete, Knossos, palaceDate: 1650-1550 BCE Clothing depicted: Heanos, some kind of overskirt. The skirt is reconstructed.