Minoan Art. La Parisienne or the Minoan Lady

Minoan Art. La Parisienne or the Minoan Lady with the sacral knot at the back of the neck that seems to indicate that she is a priestess or even a goddess. The fresco uses the black colour for emphasizing the form of the eyes and red for the lips. It dates from the Neopalatial period, ca. 1400 B.C. The Herakleion Archaeological Museum. Crete

1400 Cretan Crete Fragment Heraklion Knossos Knot Lips Minoan Neopalatial Parisienne Polychrome Priestess Sacral

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