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Greek Archeology exam 2
Temples, pottery, coins, and language
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Archaeology
Undergraduate 2
02/22/2010

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Term
Pithekoussai
Definition

Acropolis dump

Corinthian pottery found in cemeteries

Daughter community of Chalcis or Eretria

Phoenician influence bc its a small offshore island

Two day ride to copper resources

Close enough for trade but far enough for security and isolation

Populous settlement for 70ish years

Trading post, emporium

First signs of GK written language

 

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Corinth
Definition

Corinthian style

City-state, citizens belong to community, state formation depends on ideology of citizenship,urban center

First temple of Apollo

 

Term
Eretria
Definition
Hekatompedon,
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Apoikiai
Definition

Colony or oversea settlement

home away from home

had a mother city, metropoleis

Term
Emporion
Definition

Trade cities between Greeks and foreign countries

More deverse than Apoikiai because only traders lived there

Trade with Egypt through Naucratis

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Oikist
Definition

founder

recieved herioc worship after death

Term
Alphabet
Definition

First seen in Pithekoussai

found on goods

First had 22 consonants, Gk changed 5 of them to vowels

Inventory, trade, poetry, pottery decoration

Ideograms, constanants, and vowels

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Temples
Definition

Shrines to gods

Early temples (8th century) resemble large houses, wood and mud brick

Eretia has 8th century temples to Apollo

Earlies is daphnephorion, apsidal hut

Peloponnese, cointhian, first to use ceramic tiles

Posedion at Isthmia- first to use stone colums

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