A lustral basin in the West Wing of the Palace of Phaistos.[1]
The lustral basin is an architectural form used in Minoan architecture. Consisting of a small sunken room reached by a staircase, they are characteristic of elite architecture of the Neopalatial period (c. 1750-1470 BC).
They are hypothesized to have been used either as shrines, baths, or as part of an initiation ritual. The term was coined by Sir Arthur Evans, who hypothesized that they were used for lustration.
^Shelmerdine, Cynthia (2008). "Plate Section". In Shelmerdine, Cynthia (ed.). The Cambridge Companion to the Aegean Bronze Age. Cambridge University Press. Plate 6.4 and caption thereof. doi:10.1017/CCOL9780521814447.021. ISBN 978-0-521-89127-1.
The lustralbasin is an architectural form used in Minoan architecture. Consisting of a small sunken room reached by a staircase, they are characteristic...
vocabulary and organization, including distinctive room types such as the lustralbasin and the pillar crypt. However, each palace was unique, and their appearances...
sort of tub area is opposite the throne, behind the benches, termed a lustralbasin, which means that Evans and his team saw it as a place for ceremonial...
heaven (Heb 9:23). Honden, the most sacred building at a Shinto shrine Lustralbasin Most Holy Place, in various religions Warren's Gate, an ancient entrance...
to the Christian religion after theirs offered him absolution. LustrationLustralbasin Heitland p. 224 Leo 2019, p. 229. Burriss 1927, p. 28. Wardle 2006...
excavations in Daskalogiannis Street revealed, where a LMI sanctuary or "lustralbasin" came to light. The discovery of a corpus of Linear A and Linear B tablets...
innermost parts of any structure or of the human psyche. Holy of Holies Lustralbasin Mahavira Hall and hondō – sometimes translated as adytum Inner sanctum...
Heavenly Kings, another common hall in Chinese temples Hall of Guanyin Lustralbasin Japanese Buddhist Main Halls, some of which are Chinese-style Mahavira...
of women Eleusinian Mysteries Lady Macbeth effect Law of contagion Lustralbasin Water and religion "Nitten Soji and the prevention of infections" Classical...
pot and kept near a Paritrana ceremony, a blessing for protection. This "lustral water" can be created in a ceremony in which the burning and extinction...
and included the main altar for burnt offering, with mosaic-floored lustrationbasins to its north and south, a subterranean chamber, and three underground...
saw a number of puzzling cultural changes including the filling in of lustralbasins. In their book The Troubled Island, Driessen and MacDonald argued that...
world, including Fiji (once nicknamed the "Cannibal Isles"), the Amazon Basin, the Congo, and the Māori people of New Zealand. Cannibalism was also practised...
greyish, bluish, or purple. On the best developed of the three cleavages, the lustre is pearly; on other surfaces it is glassy. When exposed to water, anhydrite...
subdivided into bright, semi-bright, semi-dull and dull on the basis of its lustre. Shungite has two main modes of occurrence, disseminated within the host...
the Hindu Kush (in present-day Afghanistan and Pakistan) and the Indus basin (in present-day Pakistan and India), occupying the western part of the Indo-Greek...
and black coal, is a hard, compact variety of coal that has a submetallic lustre. It has the highest carbon content, the fewest impurities, and the highest...
color of an adult specimen is a translucent yellow, with a pearlescent lustre emanating from the scales in particularly fine specimens. The dorsal and...
Serapis; 2nd century; 15.6×9.5 cm; Metropolitan Museum of Art Auricular basin with scenes from the story of Diana and Actaeon; 1613; length: 50 cm, height:...
box, with Arabic and Persian inscriptions, Zhengde (1506-1521). Ablution basin with word Taharat (cleanliness) in Thuluth calligraphy, Ming Zhengde (1506-1521)...
depended on the varna of the sacrificer. Rajasuya endowed Brahmana with lustre, Kshatriya with valour, Vaishya with procreative power and Shudra with stability...
appears to test the temperature of the water poured into a small washing lustral supported by a pedestal, from which hangs a towel and in which a maid seems...
Complex covering the Transvaal Basin in South Africa; the Stillwater Complex in Montana, United States; the Sudbury Basin and Thunder Bay District of Ontario...
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