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The Minoan Settlement at Akrotiri and the eruption of Theran volcano

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The Minoan Settlement at Akrotiri

and the eruption of Theran volcano

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Santorini - View North along crater rim toward Nea Kammeni and Oia

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Santorini - View East from Nea Kammeni Volcano toward Phira

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The site at Akrotiri

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The West House (plans)

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Room 5 of the West House

Offering table with marine decoration

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Room 4 of the West House

West wall South WallEast Wall

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Miniature fresco from Room 5, West House (North Wall)

(“Assembly on the Hill and the Shipwreck”)

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Miniature fresco from Room 5, West House (South Wall)

“The Flotilla”

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Miniature fresco from Room 5, West House (South Wall)

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Miniature Frieze, Room 5, East Wall (“The River”)

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Xeste 3

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Tentative reconstruction of Room 3 (Xeste 3), both levels

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Xeste 3, Room 3, lustral basin - North Wall

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Xeste 3, Room 3a, first floor - East Wall (“Saffron Gatherers”)

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Xeste 3, Room 3, first floor, North Wall (“Mistress of the Animals”)

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Xeste 3, other frescoes from other walls, rooms

Room 9, Second Floor (“rosettes”)

Room 3b, Ground floor, North corridor Room 3b, Ground floor, North corridor

Room 3b,

Ground floor,

North corridor

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Plan of the House of the Ladies

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Tentative reconstruction of Room 1, House of the Ladies

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House of the Ladies, Room 1, West section

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House of the Ladies, Room 1, east section - South Wall

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Sector Delta, Room 2 (“Springtime Fresco” or “Fresco of the Lilies”)

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Sector Beta, Room 1 (“Gazelles”)

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Sector Beta, Room 6 (“Blue Monkey Fresco”)