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Greek Art and Archaeology Images: Exam 1 Study Guide

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1. Sauceboat
2. Gold
3. Troy
4. EH
5. Important because it shares similarities between the sauceboat from Troy and the Cyclades, suggesting skeuomorphism.
1. What is it?
2. medium/material?
3. Where/what culture?
4. Date?
5. Why is it interesting or important?
1. Axe-head
2. Bronze
3. Troy
4. EH
5. Is important because it was found with three other axe-heads. All were similar and probably suggest a ceremonial function associated with blood sacrifice.
1. What is it?
2. medium/material?
3. Where/what culture?
4. Date?
5. Why is it interesting or important?
1. Sauceboat
2. Clay
3. Cycladic
4. EC
5. Is important because it shares similarities between the sauceboat from Troy and the Cyclades, suggesting skeuomorphism.
1. What is it?
2. medium/material?
3. Where/what culture?
4. Date?
5. Why is it interesting or important?
1. Folded Arm Figurine
2. Marble
3. Cycladic
4. EC
5. Is important because its function is unknown, yet these figurines were found almost everywhere. Also shows how marble was easily accessible in the Cyclades.
1. What is it?
2. medium/material?
3. Where/what culture?
4. Date?
5. Why is it interesting or important?
1. Harpist in Cycladic style
2. Marble
3. Cycladic
4. EC
5. This is interesting because it sparks the question of whether or not this was a forgery because of its different features. This figurine is fleshier, has more facial features, and is in a different position. We also, know that there was a looting issue, that possibly suggest looters had access to the original figurines.
1. What is it?
2. medium/material?
3. Where/what culture?
4. Date?
5. Why is it interesting or important?
1. Keros Hoard
2. Marble
3. Cycladic
4. Date Uncertain, EC maybe
5. This is important because it demonstrates the looting issue the Cyclades faced. These fragments are of the folded arm figurines, but none of them are intact.
1. What is it?
2. medium/material?
3. Where/what culture?
4. Date?
5. Why is it interesting or important?
1. Kamares Ware Jug
2. Clay
3. Minoan
4. MMII
5. Is important because it shows the characteristics Minoan pottery displayed. This includes the light on dark backgrounds, patterns in opposite directions, and ground lines.
1. What is it?
2. medium/material?
3. Where/what culture?
4. Date?
5. Why is it interesting or important?
1. Marine Style Rhyton
2. Clay
3. Minoan
4. LMI
5. Is important because it strays away from the light on dark background and switches to dark on light. It also shows the sea creatures that were represented in this pottery style.
1. What is it?
2. medium/material?
3. Where/what culture?
4. Date?
5. Why is it interesting or important?
1. Rhyton
2. Clay
3. Minoan
4. LMI
5. Is important because not only was this used for drinking wine, but it demonstrates the significance bulls were in Minoan culture. This could have been used for ceremonial purposes.
1. What is it?
2. medium/material?
3. Where/what culture?
4. Date?
5. Why is it interesting or important?
1. Seal, Signet ring
2. Gold
3. Minoan
4. LMI
5. Significant because it shows the craftsmanship Minoans had, especially because these seals are incredibly small, yet have so much details.
1. What is it?
2. medium/material?
3. Where/what culture?
4. Date?
5. Why is it interesting or important?
1. Bird and Monkey Fresco
2. Wall painting/Fresco
3. Minoan
4. MMIII-LMI
5. Is significant because it shows the influence Egypt had on Minoan culture. Minoans obviously did not have blue monkeys or papyrus where they were located, but they incorporated it. Also, Minoans used true fresco which made frescos more durable.
1. What is it?
2. medium/material?
3. Where/what culture?
4. Date?
5. Why is it interesting or important?
1. Bird and Monkey Fresco
2. Fresco
3. Minoan
4. MMIII-LMI
5. Is significant because it shows the influence Egypt had on Minoan culture. Minoans obviously did not have blue monkeys or papyrus where they were located, but they incorporated it. Also, Minoans used true fresco which made frescos more durable.
1. What is it?
2. medium/material?
3. Where/what culture?
4. Date?
5. Why is it interesting or important?
1. Snake goddess
2. Faience
3. Minoan
4. MMIII-LMI
5. Is important because it demonstrates that used figurines to represent their gods and goddesses. This figure in particular is made out of faience, which is glass-like ceramic, and requires great technical skills to make.
1. What is it?
2. medium/material?
3. Where/what culture?
4. Date?
5. Why is it interesting or important?
1. Miniature double axe
2. Gold
3. Minoan
4. LMI
5. Is important because it represents the ax used in religious rituals. The larger ones are typically used for killing animals for sacrifices, but the miniature versions could be used as gifts to the gods.
1. What is it?
2. medium/material?
3. Where/what culture?
4. Date?
5. Why is it interesting or important?
1. Knossos Throne Room
2. stone
3. Knossos, Minoan
4. LMI
5. Is significant because this was actually rebuilt. After being excavated by Sir Arthur Evans, he decided to reconstruct this site, and now it is 80% rebuilt, making not all of this accurate.
1. What is it?
2. medium/material?
3. Where/what culture?
4. Date?
5. Why is it interesting or important?
1. Bull Leaping Fresco
2. Fresco
3. Minoan
4. LMI
5. This is important because again, it shows the significance bulls had in Minoan culture, especially considering how popular bulls are displayed in Minoan art. Also, this fresco is heavily restored, but the technique used "true fresco", helped preserve the image.
1. What is it?
2. medium/material?
3. Where/what culture?
4. Date?
5. Why is it interesting or important?
1. Xeste 3 Fresco
2. Fresco, wall painting
3. Cycladic, Xeste 3, Thera
4. LCI
5. Is important because it seems to have been influenced by Minoan culture, as well as reflects women coming of age. The plan saffron were significant and represented fertility and a woman maturing.
1. What is it?
2. medium/material?
3. Where/what culture?
4. Date?
5. Why is it interesting or important?
1. Gray Minyan Ware
2. Clay
3. Mycenean
4. MH
5. Is important because we shift from Kamare ware and use Gray Minyan Ware, which is unpainted pottery that has been fired, and is meant to mimic metal work
1. What is it?
2. medium/material?
3. Where/what culture?
4. Date?
5. Why is it interesting or important?
1. Stele over Shaft grave
2. Limestone
3. Mycenae, Grave Circle A
4. LHI
5. Is important because it served as a grave marker and was carved with scenes or patterns. This one, in particular, is of a chariot and a swordsman.
1. What is it?
2. medium/material?
3. Where/what culture?
4. Date?
5. Why is it interesting or important?
1. Goblet with handles
2. Gold
3. Mycenae, Grave Circle A
4. LHI
5. Is important because this cup closely resembles the one described in the Iliad of Homer. It also was an item found in Grave Circle A, where numerous amounts of gold were found here than all of Greece.
1. What is it?
2. medium/material?
3. Where/what culture?
4. Date?
5. Why is it interesting or important?
1. Death mask
2. Gold
3. Mycenae, Grave Circle A
4. LHI
5. Is important because this thin sheet layer of gold was placed on the dead when they were buried. It may have been suggested of royal descent or high status. It was also among the many gold items found in Grave Circle A.
1. What is it?
2. medium/material?
3. Where/what culture?
4. Date?
5. Why is it interesting or important?
1. Ceremonial Vessel Rhyton
2. Silver, gold, and bronze
3. Mycenae, Grave Circle A
4. LHI
5. It is important because it is probably Minoan either as an import or it may be of the work of an immigrant craftsman living in Mycenae. Either way, this rhyton, which is used for consumption purposes, is heavily influenced of Minoan culture. by
1. What is it?
2. medium/material?
3. Where/what culture?
4. Date?
5. Why is it interesting or important?
1. Knife blade
2. Bronze
3. Mycenae, Grave Circle A
4. LHI
5. Is significant because it depicts how Mycenean art displayed more violent and militaristic scenes as opposed to Minoan art. Also, what is interesting is that it features lions attacking, but there were no lions in Greece at this time.
1. What is it?
2. medium/material?
3. Where/what culture?
4. Date?
5. Why is it interesting or important?
1. Three handled jar
2. Clay
3. Mycenae, Grave Circle B
4. LHI
5. This is significant because it strays away from free-flowing Minoan art, and instead clearly defines the shapes of the vase (the neck, body, base) through bands of dark paint.
1. What is it?
2. medium/material?
3. Where/what culture?
4. Date?
5. Why is it interesting or important?
1. Tholos tomb interior
2. Stone
3. Mycenean
4. LHI
5. This is significant because of the technique used for this particular tomb. They used corbeling, which is a method the stacks smaller rings on top of each other and the stones are then trimmed to create a smooth beehive-like dome.
1. What is it?
2. medium/material?
3. Where/what culture?
4. Date?
5. Why is it interesting or important?
1. Tholos tomb drawing
2. Drawing
3. Mycenaean
4. LHI
5. This is significant because is demonstrates the entryway to the tomb, which is referred to as dromos. Also, this tomb featured richly colored stone.
1. What is it?
2. medium/material?
3. Where/what culture?
4. Date?
5. Why is it interesting or important?
1. Vapheio Cup
2. Gold
3. From tholos tomb at Vapheio in Lakonia
4. LHII
5. This is significant because it depicts a bull and trampling men, as well as a realistic landscape with tees and ground line. This suggests a strong Minoan influence.
1. What is it?
2. medium/material?
3. Where/what culture?
4. Date?
5. Why is it interesting or important?
1. Large Palace Style jar
2. Clay
3. Knossos, Crete
4.LMII-III
5. This is important because it combines Minoan and mainland traditions. Like the Minoan style, it is free-flowing and even features papyrus, which is influenced from Egypt. And it resembles Mycenean style by clearly articulating the main parts of the vessel.
1. What is it?
2. medium/material?
3. Where/what culture?
4. Date?
5. Why is it interesting or important?
1. Tripod Tablet
2. Clay
3. Mycenean, Pylos Palace
4. LHIII
5. This is significant because this is the tablet that unlocked Linear B, which used syllables as a form of writing. You can see the Linear B characters in the frist drawing and the phonetic transcription in the second.
1. What is it?
2. medium/material?
3. Where/what culture?
4. Date?
5. Why is it interesting or important?
1. Cyclopean Walls and Lion Gate
2. Stones
3. Mycenean fortifications
4. LHIII
5. This is significant because the lion gate features two lion statues, yet at this time, lions were not in Greece. This suggests that they may have been influenced elsewhere, probably the Hattutsa, the Hittite capital.
1. What is it?
2. medium/material?
3. Where/what culture?
4. Date?
5. Why is it interesting or important?
1. Fresco (reconstruction)
2. Wall painting
3. Mycenean, Pylos Palace
4. LHIII
5. This is significant because this fresco was restored. It also features a violent scene, which ties into Mycenean art characteristics.
1. What is it?
2. medium/material?
3. Where/what culture?
4. Date?
5. Why is it interesting or important?
1. Fresco Fragment
2. Fresco painting
3. Minoan, Knossos palace
4. LM II-III
5. This is significant because this is a restoration, and its result may be misleading, especially because of the heavy color tone.
1. What is it?
2. medium/material?
3. Where/what culture?
4. Date?
5. Why is it interesting or important?
1. Fresco Fragment
2. Fresco painting
3.Minoan, Knossos palace
4. LM II-III
5. This is significant because this is a modern restoration and its result may be misleading due to the change in color tone.
1. What is it?
2. medium/material?
3. Where/what culture?
4. Date?
5. Why is it interesting or important?
1. Conical rhyton
2. Clay
3. Mycenean
4.LHIII
5. This is significant because it exploits Minoan features such as Marine style, but in Mycenean taste, which features clear boundaries.
1. What is it?
2. medium/material?
3. Where/what culture?
4. Date?
5. Why is it interesting or important?
1. Stirrup Jar
2. Clay
3. Mycenean
4. LHIII
5. Is important because it is a Mycenean version of Minoan Marine style motifs. It incorporates dark on light backgrounds and emphasizes the shape of the jar with dark bands.
1. What is it?
2. medium/material?
3. Where/what culture?
4. Date?
5. Why is it interesting or important?
1. Female figurines
2. Clay
3. Mycenean graves
4. LHIII
5. Is important because these figures are found throughout the Mycenean world and probably represent goddesses. Ties in the religious aspect of Mycenean culture.
1. What is it?
2. medium/material?
3. Where/what culture?
4. Date?
5. Why is it interesting or important?
1. Female figurines
2. Clay
3. Mycenean graves
4. LHIII
5. Is significant because these figures are found throughout the Mycenean world and probably represent goddesses. Ties in the religious aspect of Mycenean culture.
1. What is it?
2. medium/material?
3. Where/what culture?
4. Date?
5. Why is it interesting or important?
1. Wall painting
2. Fresco
3. Mycenean, cult center
4. LHIII
5. Is significant because it seems to represent goddesses, who are accompanied by a mythological creature or are armed. Two small worshippers are also present, demonstrating how the Myceneans viewed themselves compared to the gods.
1. What is it?
2. medium/material?
3. Where/what culture?
4. Date?
5. Why is it interesting or important?
1. Head of a god
2. Ivory
3. Mycenean, cult center
4. LHIII
5. This is important because it was found on an offering table, which probably implies that these were among the many statues the Myceneans gifted to the gods.
1. What is it?
2. medium/material?
3. Where/what culture?
4. Date?
5. Why is it interesting or important?
1. Boar's tusk helmet
2. Boar's tusk
3. In a chamber tomb in Attica
4. LHIII
5. This is significant because not only does this show the craftsmanship and skill that was needed, but it also was pulled out of a description of the Odyssey.
1. What is it?
2. medium/material?
3. Where/what culture?
4. Date?
5. Why is it interesting or important?
1. Large Bowl (Krater?)
2. Clay
3. Mycenean
4. LHIII
5. This is significant because it shows warriors in horned helmets, and they might be representing the Mycenean Greeks that were among the Sea peoples who wore horned helmets in Egyptian art.
1. What is it?
2. medium/material?
3. Where/what culture?
4. Date?
5. Why is it interesting or important?
1. goddess statue
2. Clay
3. Minoan Crete
4. LMIII
5. This is important because it depicts a Minoan goddess with her arms raised and a headdress decorated with the horns of consecration, which was a Minoan key feature. This also shows the religious aspect of Minoan life, which slowly fades as the age of the palaces ends.
1. What is it?
2. medium/material?
3. Where/what culture?
4. Date?
5. Why is it interesting or important?
1. Syrian-Cretan jewelry
2. Gold
3. Found on Mt. Ida, but is associated with the Khaniale Tekke
4. Late Geometric
5. Is significant because it shows three goddesses in cylindrical hate and two stylized felines. These two sections may not have belonged together and may have different origins.
1. What is it?
2. medium/material?
3. Where/what culture?
4. Date?
5. Why is it interesting or important?
1. Drawing Syrian-Cretan shield
2. Drawing, Bronze
3. Crete
4. Late Geometric
5. Significance is that in the concentric rings, the shields bore figure scenes. These shields specifically were produced abundantly but for gifts for the gods and not for battle.
1. What is it?
2. medium/material?
3. Where/what culture?
4. Date?
5. Why is it interesting or important?
1. Syrian-Cretan lyre player
2. Bronze
3. Crete
4. Late Geometric
5. Is interesting because it depicts similarities to the harpist in a Cycladic figurine, and also shares Geometric features of having the bodies in a way connected from large to small ( small waists).
1. What is it?
2. medium/material?
3. Where/what culture?
4. Date?
5. Why is it interesting or important?
1. Apsidal hall at Lefkandi
2. Drawing
3. Lefkandi, Euboia
4. Dark Age
5. This is significant because this apsidal hall is where a couple was buried, where one was cremated and the other was not. Both of them were buried with valuables, and after their burials, people held ritual meals until it was covered in a mound.
1. What is it?
2. medium/material?
3. Where/what culture?
4. Date?
5. Why is it interesting or important?
1. Phoenician bowl
2. Bronze
3. Toumba cemetery at Lefkandi
4. Dark Age
5. This is interesting because the concentric rings depicts panthers and sphinxes, which are key features during this time period since numerous pieces of art include mythological creatures.
1. What is it?
2. medium/material?
3. Where/what culture?
4. Date?
5. Why is it interesting or important?
1. Attic Submycenaean Stirrup jar
2. Clay
3. Athens
4. Dark Age
5. This is significant because, during this period, pottery was starting from scratch because of the end of the bronze age. These were sloppier, low quality, and asymmetrical.
1. What is it?
2. medium/material?
3. Where/what culture?
4. Date?
5. Why is it interesting or important?
1. Attic Protogeometric neck handled amphora
2. Clay
3. Athens
4. Dark Age
5. This is significant because you can see the pottery style start to improve after the end of the bronze age. It starts to become more symmetrical and most of the vessel is uncovered, as well as the shape is emphasized through black bands.
1. What is it?
2. medium/material?
3. Where/what culture?
4. Date?
5. Why is it interesting or important?
1. Attic Early Geometric Neck-handled amphora
2. Clay
3. Athens
4. Early to Middle Geometric
5. This is interesting because you can see that more of the vase is covered and the designs are more symmetrical and geometric.
1. What is it?
2. medium/material?
3. Where/what culture?
4. Date?
5. Why is it interesting or important?
1. Attic Middle Geometric belly handled amphora
2. Clay
3. Athens
4. Early to Middle Geometric
5. Significant because the decoration spreads to cover more of the vase and it still marks off the main elements of the vessel.
1. What is it?
2. medium/material?
3. Where/what culture?
4. Date?
5. Why is it interesting or important?
1.Attic Late Geometric belly handled amphora
2. Clay
3. Athens
4. Late Geometric
5. Significant because the pattern work has spread over the entire vase, bringing us full circle to the dark on the light of Protogeometric.
1. What is it?
2. medium/material?
3. Where/what culture?
4. Date?
5. Why is it interesting or important?
1. Attic Late Geometric Krater
2. Clay
3. Athens
4. Late Geometric
5. This is important because this bowl that is used for mixing wine and water is showing figurine scenes in addition to its pattern work. You can also see that the human and animal figures are clearly defined in shape, and usually feature tiny waists.
1. What is it?
2. medium/material?
3. Where/what culture?
4. Date?
5. Why is it interesting or important?
1. Attic Late Geometric Krater
2. Clay
3. Athens
4. Late Geometric
5. Is significant because figural scenes are appearing and in the scene, in particular, a fight is occurring on a ship. You can see the clearly defined shape of the shields and humans.
1. What is it?
2. medium/material?
3. Where/what culture?
4. Date?
5. Why is it interesting or important?
1. Attic Late Geometric neck handled amphora
2. Clay
3. Athens
4. Late Geometric
5. Is significant because mourners, warriors, and horses are being shown in this shape style in addition to the pattern work.
1. What is it?
2. medium/material?
3. Where/what culture?
4. Date?
5. Why is it interesting or important?
1. Krater
2. Clay
3. Cyprus, Euboia
4. Late Geometric
5. Is significant because it shows that pottery is not just bein produced in Athens, but in other cities too, such as Euboia.
1. What is it?
2. medium/material?
3. Where/what culture?
4. Date?
5. Why is it interesting or important?
1. Sub-Protogeometric Skyphos cup
2. Clay
3. Euboia
4. Dark Age
5. This is significant because this type of cup has been found around the Mediterranean and plays a crucial role in the archaeology of the period.
1. What is it?
2. medium/material?
3. Where/what culture?
4. Date?
5. Why is it interesting or important?
1. Ionian Bird Bowl
2. Clay
3. Ionia
4. Protoarchaic
5. Is significant because it is another important pottery type that was widely distributed in the East Greek world.
1. What is it?
2. medium/material?
3. Where/what culture?
4. Date?
5. Why is it interesting or important?
1. Rectilinear Temple Model
2. Clay
3. Hera
4. Late Geometric
5. This is significant because it shows a temple model from the sanctuary of Hera. This rectilinear shape replaced the horseshoe plan entirely, but the symbols along the side are unclear.
1. What is it?
2. medium/material?
3. Where/what culture?
4. Date?
5. Why is it interesting or important?
1. Animal figurines
2. Bronze
3. Sanctuary of Zeus at Olympia
4. Late Geometric
5. This is significant because these animal figurines served as gifts or sacrificial offerings to the gods instead of the blood sacrifice, which was costly, and short lived.
1. What is it?
2. medium/material?
3. Where/what culture?
4. Date?
5. Why is it interesting or important?
1. tripod cauldron
2. Bronze
3. Olympia
4. Late Geometric
5. This is significant because it used to be used to cook sacrificial victims for the gods, but later became a gift exchange that serves as a display piece. It often had small figurines added to the handles.
1. What is it?
2. medium/material?
3. Where/what culture?
4. Date?
5. Why is it interesting or important?
1. Figure from tripod handle
2. Bronze
3. Olympia
4. Late Geometric
5. Is significant because it is one of the figures that are on top of the tripod cauldron handles that are presented to the gods. However, it is unclear if it is meant to represent gods or mortals.
1. What is it?
2. medium/material?
3. Where/what culture?
4. Date?
5. Why is it interesting or important?
1. Semitic god wearing an Egyptian crown
2. Bronze
3. Levantine
4. Late Geometric
5. Is meant to represent a smiting god, but instead of this figure being bulgy with detailed joints, it is smooth and even fleshy.
1. What is it?
2. medium/material?
3. Where/what culture?
4. Date?
5. Why is it interesting or important?
1. Leg of Tripod
2. Bronze
3. Olympia
4. Late Geometric
5. this is significant because it can be interpreted at different levels. IT may represent two people fighting over a tripod or it could represent a Greek myth where Apollo and Herakles fight for a sacred tripod.
1. What is it?
2. medium/material?
3. Where/what culture?
4. Date?
5. Why is it interesting or important?
1. Small figure of Apollo
2. Bronze
3. Boiotia
4. Late Geometric
5. This is significant because it is representing the god Apollo and has distinct Geometric features such as the two entities that connect in the middle, which result in a tiny waist.
1. What is it?
2. medium/material?
3. Where/what culture?
4. Date?
5. Why is it interesting or important?
1. Cup with the inscription, Nestor's cup
2. Clay
3. Ischia
4. Late Geometric
5. Is significant because of its inscription of poetry which seems to allude to the golden cup belonging to the hero Nestor in the Iliad.
1. What is it?
2. medium/material?
3. Where/what culture?
4. Date?
5. Why is it interesting or important?
1. Terracota Centuar
2. Terracota
3. Toumba cemetery at Leufkandi
4. Late Geometric
5. This is significant because this centaur appears to be injured, which implies a narrative or backstory (He could have been in a battle).
1. What is it?
2. medium/material?
3. Where/what culture?
4. Date?
5. Why is it interesting or important?
1. Protocorinthian jug (Chigi Vase)
2. Clay
3. Etruscan tomb
4. Protoarchaic
5. This vase is significant because it is very high in quality and it is the very few arts that depict hoplites phalanx and through its registers it suggests the different stages of life males go through in this time period.
1. What is it?
2. medium/material?
3. Where/what culture?
4. Date?
5. Why is it interesting or important?
1. Corinthian cup of the Thapsos Class
2. Clay
3. Corinth
4. Late Geometric
5. Is significant because they were products of a single workshop that catered to Western clientele. It also closely resembles the main line of Corinthian Late Geometric, which is a style that emphasis horizontal lines and a fine whitish fabric.
1. What is it?
2. medium/material?
3. Where/what culture?
4. Date?
5. Why is it interesting or important?
1. Basin
2. Clay
3. Incoronata, near Metapontion
4. Protoarchaic
5. This is significant because the iconography is largely Greek and most likely had a cultic function.
1. What is it?
2. medium/material?
3. Where/what culture?
4. Date?
5. Why is it interesting or important?
1. Basin
2. Clay
3. Incoronata, near Meapontion
4. Protoarchaic
5. Is significant because it represents the myth with Perseus and running gorgons.
1. What is it?
2. medium/material?
3. Where/what culture?
4. Date?
5. Why is it interesting or important?
1. Tripod Cauldron with protomes
2. Bronze
3. Found in Cyprus
4. Late Geometric
5. Is significant because it is still used as a display piece for the sanctuaries, however, it now has add-ons in the shape of mythological creatures. As well as, the legs are no longer attached directly to the cauldron.
1. What is it?
2. medium/material?
3. Where/what culture?
4. Date?
5. Why is it interesting or important?
1. Griffin protomes
2. Bronze
3. Olympia
4. Protoarchaic
5. Significant because during this time, mythological creatures are on the rise, and this protome was added to the tripod cauldrons.
1. What is it?
2. medium/material?
3. Where/what culture?
4. Date?
5. Why is it interesting or important?
1. Sphinx
2. Ivory
3. Sanctuary of Hera at Perachora
4. Protoarchaic
5. Is significant because during this time, mythological creatures were on the rise.
1. What is it?
2. medium/material?
3. Where/what culture?
4. Date?
5. Why is it interesting or important?
1. Storage jar
2. Clay
3. Island of Tinos
4. Protoarchaic
5. This is significant because it demonstrates the myth where Perseus kills Medousa. He is aware that her stare turns men to stone, so Perseus cuts off her head as he stares in the other direction.
1. What is it?
2. medium/material?
3. Where/what culture?
4. Date?
5. Why is it interesting or important?
1. Bronze sheet
2. Bronze
3. Olympia
4. Protoarchaic
5. Is significant because it demonstrates the centaurs killing the hero Kaineus by pounding him onto the ground with tree trunks, which again is another Greek myth.
1. What is it?
2. medium/material?
3. Where/what culture?
4. Date?
5. Why is it interesting or important?
1. Middle Protocorinthian oil flask
2. Clay
3. Corinth
4. Protoarchaic
5. Is significant because the upper part is molded into the form of a woman's head and the body is displaying a battle using a black-figure style, which incorporates color slips and incision.
1. What is it?
2. medium/material?
3. Where/what culture?
4. Date?
5. Why is it interesting or important?
1. Chigi Vase
2. Clay
3. Corinth
4. Protoarchaic
5. Is significant because it is high in quality and depicts the stages of a boy's life, which includes the hoplite's phalanx.
1. What is it?
2. medium/material?
3. Where/what culture?
4. Date?
5. Why is it interesting or important?
1. Wild Goat Style Pitcher
2. Clay
3. Ionia
4. Protoarchaic
5. Is significant because it uses a style called Wild Goat Style, which typically uses a range of repetitive bands of animals, usually wild goats.
1. What is it?
2. medium/material?
3. Where/what culture?
4. Date?
5. Why is it interesting or important?
1. Parian amphora
2. Clay
3. Melos
4. Protoarchaic
5. Is significant because of its rich tapestry that shows a duel between two heroes over a set of armor and on the body, Apollo bringing maidens in a chariot, where he is greeted by Artemis.
1. What is it?
2. medium/material?
3. Where/what culture?
4. Date?
5. Why is it interesting or important?
1. Early Protoattic amphora
2. Clay
3. Athens
4.Protoarchaic
5. Is significant because it displays the mythical creatures this period featured as well as human figures, where the men are all nude and he women clothed.
1. What is it?
2. medium/material?
3. Where/what culture?
4. Date?
5. Why is it interesting or important?
1. Middle Protoattic amphora
2. Clay
3. Eleusis, Athens
4. Protoarchaic
5. Is significant for its mythological scene that shows Odysseys and his men blind the Cyclops.
1. What is it?
2. medium/material?
3. Where/what culture?
4. Date?
5. Why is it interesting or important?
1. Wild Goat Style Plate
2. Clay
3. Rhodes
4. Protoarchaic
5. Is significant because it is showing the fight of Menelaos and Hektor over the body of Euphorbos, and it is using Wild goat style.
1. What is it?
2. medium/material?
3. Where/what culture?
4. Date?
5. Why is it interesting or important?
1. Lamp
2. Marble
3. From Selinous, probably manufactured in the Cyclades
4. Protoarchaic
5. Is significant because it demonstrates the dedalic style that was common during this period. And it is made out of marble something we have not seen thus far.
1. What is it?
2. medium/material?
3. Where/what culture?
4. Date?
5. Why is it interesting or important?
1. Jewelry
2. Gold
3. From Kamiros
4. Protoarchaic
5. Significant because it also demonstrates the dedalic style which features a set of triangles, one for the face, and the other two for the hair.
1. What is it?
2. medium/material?
3. Where/what culture?
4. Date?
5. Why is it interesting or important?
1. Slab stone dedicated to Apollo
2. Stone
3. From Apollo sanctuary in Metapontion
4. Protoarchaic
5. Significant because it was dedicated to Apollo and served as a sema or a marker (grave marker)
1. What is it?
2. medium/material?
3. Where/what culture?
4. Date?
5. Why is it interesting or important?
1. Statues
2. Limestone
3. From Crete
4. Protoarchaic
5. Is significant because it represents Apollo alongside his mother and sister, although he is missing. It also demonstrates the dedalic style these statues used.
1. What is it?
2. medium/material?
3. Where/what culture?
4. Date?
5. Why is it interesting or important?
1. Seated goddess statue
2. Limestone
3. From the temple at Prinias
4. Protoarchaic
5. Is significant because it ties into religious aspects during this time, and it served in the temple.
1. What is it?
2. medium/material?
3. Where/what culture?
4. Date?
5. Why is it interesting or important?
1. Kore statue (Lady of Auxerre)
2. Limestone
3. Crete
4. Protoarchaic
5. Is significant because it represents a maiden statute usually with arms by her side or in a praying position. They could serve as grave markers.
1. What is it?
2. medium/material?
3. Where/what culture?
4. Date?
5. Why is it interesting or important?
1. Kore
2. Marble
3. Thera
4. Late Geometric
5. Is significant because it resembles the lady of auxerre, but is instead larger and made out of marble, which is harder to work with. But it still served to mark the grave as a sign of death.
1. What is it?
2. medium/material?
3. Where/what culture?
4. Date?
5. Why is it interesting or important?
1. Votive Kore
2. Marble
3. Delos
4. Protoarchaic
5. Significant because it may have represented Artemis and served as a gift for the gods in sanctuaries.
1. What is it?
2. medium/material?
3. Where/what culture?
4. Date?
5. Why is it interesting or important?
1. Kouros figurine
2. Bronze
3. Delphi, probably of Cretan origin
4. Protoarchaic
5. Significant because it used dedalic style, as well as served as a gift for the gods and a marker for the dead. Kouros were also naked, hands were to their sides, and usually one foot was out more than the other.
1. What is it?
2. medium/material?
3. Where/what culture?
4. Date?
5. Why is it interesting or important?
1. Mixing bowl for wine and water (krater)
2. Clay
3. Italy
4. Protoarchaic
5. Is significant not only for its mixing purposes but also because it displays the Greek Myth of Odysseus when he and his men were blinding the Cyclopes. This seems to be a popular myth since it has been brought up through many art pieces.
1. What is it?
2. medium/material?
3. Where/what culture?
4. Date?
5. Why is it interesting or important?
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