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Saffron crocus flowers, represented as small red tufts, are gathered by two women in a fragmentary Minoan fresco from the excavation of Akrotiri on the Aegean island of Santorini. | | Minoan | fresco | Akrotiri | Aegean | Santorini | Saffron | spice | stigmas | fragrance | seasoning | fragrance | dye | medicine | Southwest Asia | Greece | Crocus cartwrightianus | bred | Bronze Age | Crete | Assyrian | Ashurbanipal | use | Eurasia | North Africa | North America | Oceania | A detail of the "Saffron Gatherers" fresco from the "Xeste 3" building. This fresco is one of many depicting saffron that were found at the ancient Minoan settlement of Akrotiri, Santorini. | | Minoan | Santorini | Greco-Roman | AD | Bronze Age | Knossos | frescoes | Minoan Crete | monkeys | Akrotiri | Santorini | Greek goddess | volcanic eruption | Cilicia | nymph | Athens | Ovid | This inaccurate reconstruction  of a Minoan fresco from Knossos, Crete depicts a man (should be a monkey) gathering the saffron crocus flower harvest. | | Minoan | Knossos | Crete | Metamorphoses | Soli | perfumes | Herodotus | Pliny the Elder | Assyrian | Babylonian | Fertile Crescent | Corycian Cave | Mount Parnassus | Argonautica | Apollonius Rhodius | Epigrams | Martial | A Greek goddess (shown in detail) supervises the production of saffron-based therapeutic drugs in this Theran fresco on the volcanic Aegean island of Santorini. | | Aegean | Santorini | Ptolemaic Egypt | Cleopatra | coriander | myrrh | poultice | Urinary tract | Phoenicians | Rosetta | Gaza | Rhodes | courtesans | hetaerae | Sidon | Tyre | ancient Greeks | Romans | Nero | mascara | wines | potpourri | deities | Gaul | barbarian invasion of Italy | Moors | Avignon Papacy | Two saffron crocus flowers in Osaka Prefecture, Japan | | Osaka Prefecture | Japan | Iraq | Sumerians | Hebrew | Tanakh | honeycomb | Lebanon | pomegranates | spikenard | cinnamon | Song of Solomon | ancient Persia | Isfahan | melancholy | aphrodisiac | sandalwood | Alexander the Great | Turkey | Safranbolu | South | East Asia | India | Kashmir | The 17.8 m monolith of Jain prophet Bhagavan Gomateshwara Bahubali, which was carved between 978–993 AD and is located in Shravanabelagola, India, is anointed with saffron every 12 years by thousands of devotees as part of the Mahamastakabhisheka festival. | | m | monolith | Jain | Bhagavan | Gomateshwara | Bahubali | Shravanabelagola | India | Mahamastakabhisheka | Sufi | ascetics | Pampore | Tantric Hindu | Buddhist | sarvastivadin | vinaya | arhat | missionary | Buddha Siddhartha Guatama | China | Mongol | Bencao Gangmu | Emperor Shen-Ung | Medieval European illuminated manuscripts, such as this 13th-century depiction of Archbishop of Canterbury Thomas Becket's assassination, often used saffron dyes to provide hues of yellow and orange. | | illuminated manuscripts | Archbishop of Canterbury | Thomas Becket | yellow | orange | Afghanistan | European Union | United Kingdom | opium | fall of the Roman Empire | most of Spain | Poitiers | Battle of Tours | Charles Martel | Andalucia | Castile | La Mancha | Valencia | Black Death | Crusades | Rhodes | Basel | US$ | Venetian | Genoan | Persian saffron threads from Iran. | | Iran | Nuremberg | Austria | Crete | France | Greece | Ottoman Empire | Sicily | Spain | marigold | immolation | England | Edward III | Norfolk | Suffolk | Cambridgeshire | Foxton | Essex | Saffron Walden | arms | puritanical | spice trade | Dean | Manchester | Industrial Revolution | maize | potatoes | chocolate | coffee | tea | vanilla | A saffron crocus flower | | Americas | Alsatian | German | Anabaptists | Dunkards | Pennsylvania | Susquehanna River | Pennsylvania Dutch | Schwenkfelder Church | Caribbean | commodities exchange | gold | War of 1812 | cakes | noodles | chicken | trout | Lancaster County, Pennsylvania | Persian saffron threads. | Topics related to saffron | Saffron | Trade and use | ISBN 0-520-23674-2 | January 10 | 2006 | ISBN 0-415-23259-7 | January 10 | 2006 | January 10 | 2006 | dead link | ISBN 90-5702-394-6 | January 10 | 2006 | ISBN 0-521-09843-2 | ISBN 0-471-21423-X | April 10 | 2008 | January 10 | 2006 | ISBN 1-58008-024-3 | January 10 | 2006 | ISBN 0-684-80001-2 | January 10 | 2006 | ISBN 0-586-08253-0 | January 10 | 2006 | January 10 | 2006 | ISBN 0-8070-5008-3 | January 10 | 2006 | 2007 | 03-21 | 2007 | 04-29 | Commons | Wikimedia Commons | Featured article | Categories | Featured articles | Ancient Greece | Ancient Rome | Economic history of China | History of Europe | Natural history of India | History of North America | History of the Middle East | History of food and drink | Saffron | All articles with dead external links | Articles with dead external links since April 2008 |
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