Minoan/Mycenaean Source Materials

Fresco – West House – Boys with fish

Find spot:  Akrotiri, island of Thera (Santorini), West house
Date: 17th century BCE (circa 1600–1550 BCE)
Clothing depicted: fish, necklace
Museum link: Museum of Prehistoric Thira, Santorini https://www.namuseum.gr/en/collection/syllogi-archaiotiton-thiras/

Young boys with shaved heads and stray locks showing off stringers of fish


Maximilian Dörrbecker, Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.5 Generic license, Wikimedia Commons

Sources

Ancient-Greece.org https://ancient-greece.org/art-architecture/akrotiri-frescoes/

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