Remains of Minoan-style painting discovered during excavations of Canaanite palace

Eurekalert ^ | Monday, November 9, 2009 | Amir Gilat, Ph.D., Rachel Feldman

[SunkenCiv]

The remains of a Minoan-style wall painting, recognizable by a blue background, the first of its kind to be found in Israel, was discovered in the course of the recent excavation season at Tel Kabri. This fresco joins others of Aegean style that have been uncovered during earlier seasons at the Canaanite palace in Kabri. "It was, without doubt, a conscious decision made by the city's rulers who wished to associate with Mediterranean culture and not adopt Syrian and Mesopotamian styles of art like other cities in Canaan did. The Canaanites were living in the Levant and wanted to feel European," explains Dr. Assaf Yasur-Landau of the University of Haifa, who directed the excavations.

[SunkenCiv]

Another one of *those* topics.

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	Gods Graves Glyphs	And a small reprise from the recent Ahmose windstorm topic: New Archaeological Evidence for a 17th Century Date of the "Minoan Eruption" from Israel (Tel Kabri, Western Galilee) -- Connections between Thera and the Canaanite culture of Syro-Palestine are well established (Buchholz 1980). As I have argued elsewhere (Niemeier 1986), these connections are to be understood within the Minoan trade network. To all -- please ping me to other topics which are appropriate for the GGG list. GGG managers are SunkenCiv, StayAt HomeMother, and Ernest_at_the_Beach
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[JoeProBono]

Painted wall fragments (right) from Tel Kabri

[Avoiding_Sulla]

Another one of *those* topics.

Why the scorn quotes? Still? Spell it out with pride.

[spyone]

huh?

[668 - Neighbor of the Beast]

The Minoan embassy in Canaan? :) Too bad they can’t dig up the interpreter’s locker. Might find a nice dictionary.

[BenLurkin]

Interesting!

[SunkenCiv]

“Painted wall fragments (right) from Tel Kabri” — thanks JoeProBono! I figured you’d come up with some if I pinged ya. :’)

“Why the scorn quotes? Still? Spell it out with pride.” — Avoiding_Sulla

“huh?” — spyone

It’s just to distinguish it from the obvious catastrophism topics, and also to be very cool and casual, and a man of mystery. ;’) I *usually* use the yellow one for V topics, and the asterisks are just simulating italics. :’)

“The Minoan embassy in Canaan? :) Too bad they can’t dig up the interpreter’s locker. Might find a nice dictionary.” — 668 - Neighbor of the Beast

Ooooh! I didn’t even think of that! That would be spectacular. Of course, I’m of the view that Minoan already has been cracked (Barry Fell)

“Interesting!” — BenLurkin

Thanks BL.

[Avoiding_Sulla]

Thanks SC.

It might be thoughtful for you to compose a “Rosetta stone” post so future archeologists can decipher your code. ;)

(And it might even be helpful to your pingees.)

[SunkenCiv]

My pleasure.

I graduated with Rosetta, nice girl, kinda square-built there, and too many tats.

[Avoiding_Sulla]

Lodes of pleasure I’m sure. Next you’ll tell us she had a magnetic personality.

[I ask for Rosetta Stone, and he gives me Rosetta Rimshot]

[SunkenCiv]

Now that you mention it, she did have a magnetic personality — but she was part Polish...

[SunkenCiv]

another beat on an old drum:

Wine and herbal residues found in Bronze Age palace cellar jars
http://popular-archaeology.com/issue/06052014/article/wine-and-herbal-residues-found-in-bronze-age-palace-cellar-jars

Characterizing a Middle Bronze Palatial Wine Cellar from Tel Kabri, Israel
http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0106406

Archaeologists Uncover Rare Finds at an Ancient Canaanite Center
http://popular-archaeology.com/issue/09012013/article/archaeologists-uncover-rare-finds-at-an-ancient-canaanite-center

the keyword:
http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/telkabri/index

[SunkenCiv]

The best evidence we have for the language of Crete in classical times is in Herodotus, who grew up in an area with Carian neighbors (used to be predominantly Carian):

Now, of the above nations the Carians are a race who came into the mainland from the islands. In ancient times they were subjects of king Minos, and went by the name of Leleges, dwelling among the isles... They served on board the ships of king Minos whenever he required; and thus, as he was a great conqueror and prospered in his wars, the Carians were in his day the most famous by far of all the nations of the earth. They likewise were the inventors of three things, the use of which was borrowed from them by the Greeks; they were the first to fasten crests on helmets and to put devices on shields, and they also invented handles for shields. In the earlier times shields were without handles, and their wearers managed them by the aid of a leathern thong, by which they were slung round the neck and left shoulder. Long after the time of Minos, the Carians were driven from the islands by the Ionians and Dorians, and so settled upon the mainland. The above is the account which the Cretans give of the Carians: the Carians themselves say very differently... The Caunians, in my judgment, are aboriginals; but by their own account they came from Crete. In their language, either they have approximated to the Carians, or the Carians to them -- on this point I cannot speak with certainty. In their customs, however, they differ greatly from the Carians, and not only so, but from all other men.

The Carians are called Kreti in the Bible (not in the KJV) and are grouped with the Pleti (Dr V said these latter were Phoenicians, often they are equated with the Philistines) and found in Samuel and Chronicles at least; Corinth (mainland Greece) means "Place of the Khar" or Carians. V also pointed out MacQueen's statement that Hittite "seems to be Lydian" -- a statement that MacQueen struck in the later edition of his book on the Hittites, blotting out the eminently sensible continued use of "Lydian" in favor of the industry standard "Arzawan". The point is the same. Perhaps the Minoans were ethnically Lydian/Arzawan, but definitely related to people on the Anatolian mainland, and far enough back, to what is now mainland Greece, before the Greeks got there.