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    The Minoan bull leaper is a bronze group of a bull and leaper in the British Museum. It is the only known largely complete three-dimensional sculpture...
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    based on an ancient ritual from the Minoan civilization involving an acrobat leaping over the back of a charging bull (or cow). As a sport it survives in...
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    the upper-story portion of the east wall of the Minoan palace at Knossos in Crete. It shows a bull-leaping scene. Although they were frescos, they were painted...
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  • seal-stones Minoan religion Minoan Modi, a peak sanctuary in eastern Crete Minoan Bull-leaper, a bronze in the British Museum Cypro-Minoan syllabary, a...
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    now generally thought to have been worshipped. Prominent Minoan sacred symbols include the bull and the horns of consecration, the labrys double-headed...
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  • There is a long frieze of bull-leaping and bull-grappling against a maze pattern. Especially important are the emblems of the Minoan palace such as the half...
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    common iconographic motif in Minoan art, especially frescoes, is bull-leaping; the example illustrated shows leapers and a bull. Other themes are varied,...
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    The Minoan civilization was a Bronze Age culture which was centered on the island of Crete. Known for its monumental architecture and energetic art, it...
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    Minoan palaces were massive building complexes built on Crete during the Bronze Age. They are often considered emblematic of the Minoan civilization and...
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    Minoan art is the art produced by the Bronze Age Aegean Minoan civilization from about 3000 to 1100 BC, though the most extensive and finest survivals...
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    The Minoan civilization produced a wide variety of richly decorated Minoan pottery. Its restless sequence of quirky maturing artistic styles reveals something...
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    According to Jeremy McInerney, the iconography of the bull permeates Minoan culture. The cult of the bull was also prominent in southwestern Anatolia. Bernard...
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    including two serpentine libation tables, (1700–1450 BC) Bronze Minoan Bull-leaper from Rethymnon, Crete, (1600–1450 BC) Segments of the columns and...
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    of war. Bull leaping fresco from Knossos is the most well known piece of artwork. As mentioned above, bull leaping was a sort of activity Minoan men did...
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    Mathematical Papyrus Egypt About 1550 BC BBC BM Eleanor Robson, Clive Rix 18 Minoan Bull-leaper Crete 1700–1450 BC BBC BM Sergio Delgado, Lucy Blue 19 Mold gold cape...
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    Lycurgus Cup Macmillan aryballos Mâcon Treasure Mainz Gladius Meroë Head Minoan Bull-leaper Nereid Monument Oscan Tablet Papyri of Oxyrhynchus 84 85 102 103 Paramythia...
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  • Pylos Combat Agate (category Minoan archaeological artifacts)
    History portal Greece portal Ancient Greek art Arkalochori Axe Minoan Bull-leaper Minoan snake goddess figurines Phaistos Disc Stocker, Sharon R.; Davis...
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    Preceded by 18: Minoan Bull-leaper A History of the World in 100 Objects Object 19 Succeeded by 20: Statue of Ramesses II...
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    Preceded by 16: Flood tablet A History of the World in 100 Objects Object 17 Succeeded by 18: Minoan Bull-leaper...
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    Tell el-Dab'a (category Minoan archaeology)
    The bull-leaping scenes depicted on the fresco fragments are considered to be indistinguishable from those found in Minoan palaces. The theme of bull leaping...
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    Prince of the Lilies (category Minoan frescos)
    figure, including the crown, was a female bull-leaper. Two apparent females are shown in the famous Bull-Leaping Fresco from the Knossos palace; at any rate...
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    Theseus Ring (category Bull-leaping)
    the subject is typical of Minoan art. The ring is gold and measures 2.7 x 1.8 cm. On the ring is a depiction of a bull-leaping scene, which includes a lion...
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    Knossos (category Minoan sites in Crete)
    including the Bull-Leaping Fresco, the snake goddess figurines, and numerous Linear B tablets. While Evans is often credited for discovering the Minoan Civilization...
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    civilization, with bull heads and bull horns used as symbols in the Knossos palace. Minoan frescos and ceramics depict bull-leaping, in which participants...
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  • and the Minoan frescoes from Tell el-Dab'a 1600 BC – The Gold Diadem of Caravaca, the Minoan snake goddess figurines, the Minoan Bull-leaper, the Vaphio...
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    ambitious group of a man turning a somersault over a charging bull, known as the Minoan Bull-leaper. This last was perhaps a weight; there are smaller Mycenaean...
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    Minotaur (redirect from Minos bull)
    the head and tail of a bull and the body of a man(p 34) or, as described by Roman poet Ovid, a being "part man and part bull". He dwelt at the center...
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    the 7th millennium BC, preceding the ancient Minoan civilization by more than four millennia. The Minoan civilization was the first civilization in Europe...
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    Axe Malia Pendant Minoan rhyton in form of a bull Minoan jewelry Fresco fragment of a dancing woman (Knossos, 1600-1450 BC) Bull leaping fresco(1600-1450...
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    Cycladic and Minoan cultures, which converged over time. Cycladic art is known for its simple figurines carved in white marble; Minoan art for its palace...
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