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Im Labyrinth des Minos
Kreta - die erste europäische Hochkultur
Catalogue of the exhibition from 27.1.-29.4.2000 in the Badisches
Landesmuseum Karlsruhe.
Published by Harald Siebenmorgen.
This unparalleled exhibition in the Karlsruhe Castle is divided
into several categories which will illustrate life as it was in
Minoan Crete. Exhibition visitors will gain insight into myths,
sacred and religious cults, palace culture, daily life, sea and
trade relationships, and Minoan-Mykenian Crete after the first
invasions from the mainland.
Nineteen essays give an excellent overview on art, religion, trade,
administration and architecture in minoan crete. Investigations
show the last results of research on jewellery, signets as well
as on the first language in the european. Crosscultural relationships
between early civilisations in the mediteranean are discussed
by focusing on the central role of long distance trade with its
currency and its system of weight as well as by focusing on the
minoan religion and culture, which has been seen as a matriachal
structure more than once.
A scientific approach is used on investigating the climatic and
geographical issues concerning the vulcanic catastrophy of Thera/Santorini
(ca. 1430 B.C.). New Results are presented on minoan eating habits
and medical knowlegde. Last not least a portrait is drawn of Sir
Arthur J. Evans, the charismatic excavator of Knossos, whose work
on prehistoric aegaean archaeology has influenced all generations
following.
The catalogue part presents 470 pieces in text and image. They
are shown in Germany for the first time and a big share of them
is previously unpublished. They illustrate the developement of
minoan culture from early times in the third millenium B.C., the
flourishment during the Palastzeit until the fall at the end of
the second millenium B.C.. Ceramics, statuettes, fragments of
frescoes, sarcophagus, jewellery, signets and tools show the craftsmenship
of the minoan people and allow some insight on minoan daily life.
»Das Badische Landesmuseum Karlsruhe
zeigt . . . die größte Schau über minoische Kunst
und Kultur, die bisher außerhalb Griechenlands zu sehen
war. Rund 500 teils noch nie ausgestellte Exponate vorwiegend
aus kretischen Museen vermitteln ein anschauliches Bild des Lebens
der Minoer. . . . Hervorzuheben ist der sorgfältig gemachte,
sehr verständlicehe Katalog, der ohne Übertreibung als
ein Standardwrk über Geschichte und Kultur Kretas gelten
kann.«
Schwarzwälder Bote
»Die Ausstellung vermittelt einen Eindruck von der enormen
Leistung der Minoer«
Schwarzwälder Bote
2000. 400 S.
ISBN 3-930609-26-6
EUR 40,-
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