Two Women in Tiryns
April 13, 2024
Find spot: TirynsDate: Clothing depicted: Fragmentary. Heanos and kilt?
Tag: woman
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.
Tripartite Shrine Fresco/Grandstand Fresco
April 13, 2024
Find spot: Crete, Knossos, palaceDate: 1600-1500 BCE Clothing depicted: Fragmentary. Heanos or jacket with exposed breasts; some kind of overskirt. The images are small, but may depict women wearing jackets and skirts with no heanos.
The Ladies in Blue Fresco
April 13, 2024
Find spot: Crete, Knossos, palaceDate: 1600-1450 BCE Clothing depicted: Heanos with exposed breasts, viewed from the front
The Procession Fresco
April 13, 2024
Most of the fresco is reconstructed. The details below show most of the parts that are extant. Find spot: Crete, Knossos, palaceDate: 1600-1450 BCE Clothing depicted: Heanos without overskirt; kilt worn over tiered skirt; male kilts