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Title: Greek Archeology

Description: Exam # 1

Total Flash Cards: 25

Created: 02/28/2010 16:01:22

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Bullshead Rhyton

Little Palace, Knossos

Minoan

 

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Central Court at Knossos

Typical Minoan layout

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Cyclopean Wall

At Myceane

Myceanaen

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Syros Frying pan

Keros

EC II

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Geometric period 1050 - 700 BC
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Grave Circle A @ Myceane

Most likely important people, these graves guarded by cyclopean wall

 

1600-1400 BC

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Herringbone pattern, characteristic of the EC I period

 

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kamares ware from the MM II period
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Kylix - Wine Drinking cup 6th-5th century BC
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Lions gate @ Myceane

characterized by corbal vaulting, and releaving triangle

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Lustral Basin @ Knossos

was water proofed with stone and had a tub

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Megaron is the great hall of the Mycenaean palace complexes. It was a rectangular hall, fronted by an open, two-columned porch, and a more or less central, open hearth vented though an oculus in the roof above it and surrounded by four columns. It is the architectural predecessor of the classical Greek temple
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Marine Style generally done by the Minoans on the island of Crete
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Middle Cycladic melian ware
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Middle helletic Minyan Ware
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LH Mycenaen ware
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Phylankopi on the island of melos
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LM Palace jar
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Pillar Crypt at Knossos

typical - used for religous rituals

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Protogeometric - before the geometric period

characterized by consentric cirlces and semi-circles

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Queens megaron at Knossos - Minoan style
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EH Sauceboat
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Spedos style - crossed arms
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Tomb of Agamemnon/Treasury of Atreus Mycenae
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