La Parisienne
April 17, 2024
Find spot: Crete, Knossos, palaceDate: 1400-1350/1300 BCE Clothing depicted: Heanos with vertical decoration (“La Parisienne”) Part of the Camp Stool Fresco/Libation Fresco.
Tag: 1400-1300 BCE
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. […]
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
Mycenaean Woman from Tiryns
April 13, 2024
Find spot: TirynsDate: 14th-13th c. BCE Clothing depicted: Fragmentary. Detailed view of decorated band of heanos.