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.
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Model of a Female Garment
April 17, 2024
Find spot: Crete, KnossosDate: 1650-1550 BCE Clothing depicted: Heanos, thick waistband, some sort of overskirt. The decoration of the overskirt suggests to me that rather than depicting a real garment, the surface of the skirt is used to show a landscape with saffron flowers.
Pottery Dancers and Musician
April 17, 2024
Goddess with Upraised Arms
April 17, 2024
Dancing Woman
April 17, 2024
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
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 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.