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Ewer, from Agia Triada (Heraklion Museum)
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Rhyton from Palaikastro (Heraklion Museum)
Rhyton with sculpted head of a wild goat as handle and with painted crocus flower decoration. Neopalatial period (1500- 1450 BC)
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Rhyton from Palaikastro (Heraklion Museum)
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Flask from Palaikastro (Heraklion Museum)
Flask decorated with a large octopus and supplementary motifs: sea urchins, seaweed and rocks, an outstanding example of the mature marine style. Late Neopalatial period (1450 BC)
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Kri-Kri, The Cretan Ibex ( ©Anastassios Sakoulis)
The Cretan feral goat which lives on the White Mountains (Lefka Ori)-Photo by Anastassios Sakoulis - www.photophysis.gr
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Wine jar, from Zakros Palace
The item is painted with loops, spirals and reeds. Neopalatial Period (1600 - 1450 BC)- Heraklion Museum.
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Steatite rhyton, from Zakros Palace
The item was initially covered with gold leaves, traces of which have been preserved. The entire surface is decorated with a low relief scene of an open-air peak sanctuary crowed with horns of consecration, in a superb landscape composition with a mountainous landscape in which wild goats are sitting on the top shrine or leaping about among the rocks and birds are flying in the sky.
Late Neopalatial Period (1450 BC)- Heraklion Museum.
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Marine style jug, from Zakros Palace
Outstanding sample of the marine style, decorated with nautilus. Late Neopalatial Period (1450 BC)- Heraklion Museum.
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Rhyton of Chlorite, from Zakros Palace (Heraklion Museum)
Chlorite rhyton in the shape of a bull's head from the "Sanctuary Treasury" of the Palace of Zakros. Late Neopalatial Period (1450 BC)
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Rhyton of Spartan basalt, from Zakros Palace
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Amphora, from Zakros Palace (Heraklion Museum)
Elaborate ritual amphora of multicoloured veined stone, from the "Sanctuary Treasury" of the Palace of Zakros. Late Neopalatial Period (1450 BC)
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Rhyton of rock crystal, from Zakros Palace (Heraklion Museum)
The handle consists of crystal beads, threaded onto a bronze wire, and gilt disks adorn the ring around the neck. Late Neopalatial Period (1450 BC)
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Marine style oval rhyton, from Zakros Palace
The item is decorated with starfish - sun, tritons and seaweed. Late Neopalatial Period (1450 BC)- Heraklion Museum.
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Gold ring - Lyttos
Gold ring with a gemstone of lapis lazuli on which the image of a laurel - crowned head is carved, perhaps Dionysus.
Lyttos, Roman period (3rd century A.D).
Heraklion Archaeological museum.

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