· Middle Kingdom
§ Nobleman
o Section and Plan of Rock cut tombs
o King Mituhotep, Queen Hatshepsut
§ Site used to have greenery
§ Architecture of progression
o Two sites looking at temple of Karnak
§ Pilons
§ Hypostyle
o Egypt
§ Structures built over things
o Edfu
§ Temple dedicated to Horus, falcon headed god
o King Tut
§ How do we look at other people's stuff
§ Who does his remains belong to?
· Modern day Egypt claimed him
§ Looked over ridge of Hapshetsut and Mitohotep
§ Two Adjacent Rooms
§ White walls
§ Many gold objects
§ Howard Carter
· Pre Greek Cultures
o Cyladic
§ Islands of cyclatese
§ Cycladic Figures
§ No Architectural record
o Minoan
§ Islands of Crete
§ Large residential nodes
· Communities
§ King Minus's home
§ Island of Thera or Santorini
· Volcano exploded there
§ Palace of Malia
§ 500 - 600 years strong then population crashed (volcano?) and they rebuilt
· After the second crash no rebuilding, probably war
§ Housing similarities
· Large courtyard
· Not walled in
· Not defensive
· Storage magazines for wealth
o They sold olive oil
§ Sir Arthur Evans discovered it while looking for wax letter seals
· Example of modern scholarship
· Had an architect on the excavation team
§ Knossos
· First, and largest community
· Well documented
· 10,000 people
· 1700 - 1380 BC
· Maritime Culture
· Frescoes
· Courtyards North - south orientation
· Sophisticated plumbing
o Hot and cold running water
o Hot water runs through floor slabs
· Light well/staircase in residential quarter
o Four stories tall light penetrates through floors
o Good for ventilation
· Columns as a metaphore or something else
o Kings throne
o Lower level had different columns, square
· Largest and most complete restoration of a site
· Pillar Crypt
o Basin in floor with square columns in the middle
o Small room
§ Culture
· Hardwork, with a smile
· Bull jumping sport
o Bull rhytons
o Bull images
§ Golf Tee Columns
· Made of wood
· Black red and yellow
§ Nodes of civilization on island of Crete
§ Myth
· Mines went to Poseidon, who gave him a bull to sacrifice
· Poseidon cast a spell on Pasiphae to only be satisfied by the bull
· Mines hires Deadalus who makes a maze to trap and capture the bull
· Deadulus - Inventor of the Labyrinth
