Minoan marine-style rhyta 1500-1450 BCE
"Presently, since they (Minoans) could neither take it nor remain there because of the famine which afflicted them, they departed. However, when they were at sea off Iapygia, a great storm caught and drove them ashore. Because their ships had been wrecked and there was no way left of returning to Crete, they founded there the town of Hyria, and made this their dwelling place, accordingly changing from Cretans to Messapians of Iapygia, and from islanders to dwellers on the mainland."
-Herodotus, The Histories: Book 7, Chapter 170.2
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| Clay flask and rhyta decorated in the "Marine Style" with particular naturalism. Crete, Palaikastro 1500 - 1450 BC Crete, Iraklion, AMI. |
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| Museum replica. |
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| Neopalatial rhyta. |
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| Octopus vase from Palaikastro, c. 1500 B.C.E., 27 cm high (Archaeological Museum of Heraklion, photo: Wolfgang Sauber, CC BY-SA 3.0). |
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| Octopus vase from Palaikastro (detail), c. 1500 B.C.E., 27 cm high (Archaeological Museum of Heraklion, photo: Olaf Tausch, CC BY 3.0). |
Source:
https://www.facebook.com/MinoanMycenaeTroy/photos/a.697177807048556/1007356166030717/?type=3&theater
https://twitter.com/c_j_adamson/status/1260900103021375488
https://www.pinterest.com/pin/354799276868418649/
https://smarthistory.org/octopus-vase/
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