Minoan potters employ a creamy white glaze…

2493 BCE to 2350 BCE

Minoan potters employ a creamy white glaze over a dark ground.

Minoan art, after about 2500, evolves from primitive but varied pottery styles—including the characteristic high-spouted jar-to stone vases, seals made of stone, bone and ivory, and jewelry of gold and silver distantly related in style to jewelry later unearthed in the Mesopotamian Royal Cemetery of Ur.

The art of goldsmithing has thus probably reached Crete from western Asia.

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Kríti (Crete) Island Greece View →

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Polytheism (“paganism”) View → Minoan (Cretan) culture, Early View → Crete, Archaic View →

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Subboreal Period View → Early Bronze Age III (Near and Middle East) View → Abrolhos Transgression View →

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Gem materials View → Ceramics View → Strategic metals View → Manufactured goods View →

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Origins View → Commerce View → Watercraft View → Sculpture View → Painting and Drawing View → Environment View → Decorative arts View → Faith View → Technology View → Metallurgy View → Mythology View → Anthropology View → Archaeology View →

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