Figure of a Woman

D: ca. 2500-2300 B.C.E.

P/S: Early Cycladic period/Cycladic/Protogreek/GoldenAge

A: Unknown

Pa: Unknown

L: From Syros(Cyclades), Greece

M/T: Marble

F: Primarily used for funereary offerings though it is still debated. It may have been for burial or fertility.

C: She has a striking abstract form. She typifes how women figurines were depicted by Cycladic artists.

DT: None

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Male Lyre Player

D: ca. 2700-2500 B.C.E.

P/S: Early Cycladic Period/ Cycladic/Protogreek

A: Unknown

Pa: Unknown

L: Keros[Cyclades], Greece

M/T: Marble

F:Possibly burial, though it may have been a symbol for music for the deceased, as it had been placed in the grave of  Cycladic woman.

C: Meaning is elusive

DT: None

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Palace at Knossos

D: ca. 1700-1400 B.C.E.

P/S: Minoan Period

A: Unknown

Pa: King Minos (though patron is generous to say of him. His monarchy helped fund the building of the palace)

L: Crete, Greece

M/T: Stone? Marble?

F: Has a mythological background.

C: Included terracotta piing for rainwater, and a labyrinth (minotaur and king Minos greek myth). This also had what could be considered as a forerunner to a Greek theater.

DT: None

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Bull-Leaping at Knossos

D: ca. 1450-1400 B.C.E.

P/S: Minoan

A: Unknown

Pa: Unknown

L: Crete, Greece

M/T: Fresco (Painting on lime plaster, the pigments are mixed with water and become chemically bound to the freshly laid lime plaster)

F: Celebration of a sport/ Decoration of a wall in a palace

C: Showed the minoan beauty body structure of a pinched waist. Females were white, males/youth were red. Created energy with the twisted body of the bull.

DT: None

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Snake Goddess

D: 1600 B.C.E.

P/S: Minoan

A: Unknown

Pa: Unknown

L: Palace at Knosses in Crete, Greece

M/T: Faience (glazed earthenware/ceramic)

F: May have been a votive

C: A depiction of a minoan woman with notable pinched waist, common to minoan era artwork.

DT: Faience

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Citadel at Tiryns

D: 1400-1200 B.C.E.

P/S: Mycenaen

A: Unknown

Pa: Unknown

L: Tiryns, Greece

M/T: Stone

F: Defensive

C: Full of corebeled vaults. A "city built by one-eyed giants."

DT: Corebeled vaults, megaron (the large reception hall in a Mycenaen palace, fronted by an open, 2-columned, porch.

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Corbeled Gallery in the Walls of the Citadel

D: 1400-1200 B.C.E.

P/S: Mycenaen

A: Unknown

Pa: Unknown

L: Tiryns, Greece

M/T: All stone, no mortar

F: Defensive, mean could wait in the deepened walls.

C: Large blocks up stone angled to fit into each other in a ^ shape.

DT: Cyclopean masonry

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Lions Gate

D: ca. 1300-1250 B.C.E.

P/S: Mycenaen

A: Unknown

Pa: Tron? (sp?)

L: Mycenae, Greece

M/T: Limestone/ post and lintel

F: Served as guardians (The lions)

C: Two lions (questionable because their heads are missing), on a post and lintel gateway. Found by Henrich Shliemann.

DT: Post and lintel (a system of construction in which 2 posts support a lintel), Corebeled Arch ( of the two lions), both of these create a relieving triangle.

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Treasury of Atreus (The "so-called")

D: ca. 1300-1250 B.C.E.

P/S: Mycenaen

A: Unknown

Pa: Possibly Atreus?

L: Mycenae, Greece

M/T: Stone, covered in earth

F: Believed to be the repository of the treasure of Atreus, though that is argued.

C: Tholo on the inside. Corbeled vault on the ouside/ post and lintel.

DT: Tholos (A temple with a circular plan), Corbeled vault, post&lintel

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Funerary Mask

D: 1600-1500 B.C.E.

P/S: Mycenaen

A: Unknown

Pa: Unknown

L: Mycenae, Greece from Grave Circle A

M/T: Beaten Gold (Repoussee)

F: Funerary mask

C: -

DT: Repoussee ( Formed in relief by beating a metal plate from the back, leaving the impression on the face. The metal is hammered into a hollow mold of wood or some other pliable material & finished with a graver.)

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Inlaid Dagger Blade with Lion Hunt

D: 1600-1500 B.C.E.

P/S: Mycenaen

A: Unknown

Pa: Unknown

L: Mycenae, Greece

M/T: Bronze inlaid with gold, silver, and niello./inlay

F: Defense? Weaponry

C: Heroic scene on dagger

DT: Inlay

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