Pence Family Photos
2012
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03 – Greece
![2012.03.20-10.36.20-Golden-Ibex%2C-Museum-of-Prehistoric-Thira%2C-Santorini.jpg](https://media.thepences.org/photos/2012/03%20%E2%80%93%20Greece/2012.03.20-10.36.20-Golden-Ibex%2C-Museum-of-Prehistoric-Thira%2C-Santorini.jpg "Golden Ibex, Museum of Prehistoric Thira, Santorini — This is a relatively recent find from Akrotiri; nothing like it has been found before or since. Since the site was abandoned slowly, almost all the "luxury" goods were taken from the site as the inhabitants left; this is one of the only known examples of something left behind.")
![2012.03.23-11.00.47-Mason%27s-Guild-Marks%2C-Knossos.jpg](https://media.thepences.org/photos/2012/03%20%E2%80%93%20Greece/2012.03.23-11.00.47-Mason%27s-Guild-Marks%2C-Knossos.jpg "Mason's Guild Marks, Knossos — Or, at least, that's the best guess as to what they are. These three symbols (the I, the double-headed axe, and the wheat-looking-thing) show up everywhere, but too haphazardly distributed to mean anything more than something like a craftsman's mark (and too many to be the craftsman's mark of an individual).
Notably, a "labrys" is the double-headed axe, so the "labyrinthos" was just the place where there were lots of double-headed axe symbols.")
