Marvellous 3,500 year-old Minoan clay flask decorated with a wide-eyed octopus 🐙😍 Excavated in 1903 from a Bronze Age settlement site at Palaikastro on the eastern coast of the island of Crete. Heraklion Archaeological Museum. 📷 by me #FindsFriday #Archaeology - ThreadSky

alisonfisk.bsky.social • 2 days ago

Marvellous 3,500 year-old Minoan clay flask decorated with a wide-eyed octopus 🐙😍

Excavated in 1903 from a Bronze Age settlement site at Palaikastro on the eastern coast of the island of Crete.

Heraklion Archaeological Museum. 📷 by me

#FindsFriday
#Archaeology

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petalpainter48.bsky.social•2 days ago

Honestly .. I don't think the artist that painted the octopus could stop . They were having such a good time !

marriedtoamedium.bsky.social•1 day ago

spectacular

unpubmedia.bsky.social•2 days ago

3500 years ago was around the time of the Mycenaean take over of Crete. Do we know if it’s before or after the earthquake and tsunami?

alisonfisk.bsky.social•2 days ago

The flask is dated c. 1500-1450 BC, the Late Minoan IB ceramic period, which I’ve read followed the eruption of Thera

unpubmedia.bsky.social•2 days ago

Thanks. I don’t know if it makes any difference but I was wondering…

psychaedulcisanima.bsky.social•2 days ago

Glad you noted the “cartoon-like” eyes in your Alt-text 😂 Minoan art has so much of this child-like glee to it.

What a treasure this is. Can you imagine having objects like this as your everyday kitchen ware?

alisonfisk.bsky.social•1 day ago

Glad you took the time to read the Alt-text!😊