History from the viewpoint of today
The history of Minoan civilization (3.000 B.C. - 1.450 B.C) is created with the help of ceramic art. In the Bronze Age, we recognize the most important civilization of Greek area, the Minoan civilization and we observe its amazing progress. Minoan people were really intelligent and they were very talented at arts, architecture and sciences. All these features are certified by significant finds of this era that are kept in Greek museums.
Ceramic art
Minoans developed ceramic art to a great degree, using a really fast lathe in order to reproduce pots, idols etc. made of clay in various forms. They used to decorate them with complex curvilinear figures, using their own imagination or borrowing images of the animal and vegetal kingdom. Most of Minoan idols are made of clay and depict women, but men and animal idols have also been found. “Rhyta” are the most remarkable Minoan pots, used in rituals, some of them with an animal’s shape, usually the head of holy Taurus.
The inspiration of our work
Using ceramic art, we continue the tradition of Minoans and reproduce their history, creating museum replicas. Every object of this era helps us to understand the special habits and traditions of our ancient ancestors.
Our inspiration stems from some of the ancient objects below:
The Snakes Goddess, discovered at the Knossos palace, is a marvelous example of Minoan ceramics, used in the worship procedure. Furthermore, the well-known fresco that depicts “Tavrokathapsia”, a Minoan religious bull-leaping competition, where both men and women could participate.
Phaistos Disc, found at the Phaistos palace, is a written two sides’ disc, made of clay. It is written in an ideographic, possibly syllabic script. To this very day, it hasn’t been deciphered and its content remains incomprehensible.
A large variety of rhyta (pots), vases, amphoras that are kept in the archaeological museum of Heraklion, Crete as well as in other Greek museums and a big range of relief representations are some of our creations.
