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30 Cards in this Set
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Bronze Age Aegean |
3,200 - 1,200 BC |
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Cycladic |
volcanic islands |
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Minoan |
island of Crete |
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Helladic/Mycenaean |
mainland Greece |
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Folded Arm Figurine from Syros - 2,500 BC - Cycladic - lots of fakes. real deal left over right arm. - marble or limestone - found in tombs - some show signs of repair - mostly female - maybe used for fertility |
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Male lyre player from Keros - 2,500 BC - Cycladic - few men - has harp with duck or swam ornament - simple geometric shapes |
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Organic Architecture |
grows out from center and not planned |
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courtyard |
built first in Minoan |
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Undulating walls |
not straight |
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Magazines |
storage room for grains and liquids |
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Pythos (pythoi) |
large vases for liquids |
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Coil Method |
basic way to make vase 1 clay disc for bottom 2 clay snakes wrapped around disc used because very thick and high grit |
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Palace of Minos at Knossos at Crete 1,700 BC Minoan - Birthplace of maze and minotar myth - organic architecture - built that way to survive earthquakes |
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Sir Arthur Evans |
Palace of Minos at Knossos at Crete -bought the place and restored it |
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Octopus jar 1,500 BC Minoan - extremely fine luxury item - does not show violence - black and cream bicrome - marine style pottery - wheel-made - unified surface pattern |
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Marine Style Pattern |
have marine life on it |
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Unified Surface Pattern |
decoration covers entire surface |
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Bull-leaping fresco at Knossos 1,400 BC Minoan - earliest users of fresco - palace of minos - minonians liked riding and performing tricks on bulls - pieces raised are original - true fresco |
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True (Buon) Fresco |
paint on wet plaster so it bonds and lasts longer |
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Fresco Secco (dry fresco) |
plaster dries first |
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Crocus Gatherers at Thera 1,650 BC Minoan - Thera destroyed the island - fresco thats mostly completed - swallows = nature - crocus gatherers = women gather saffron - saffron used in cooking, dyeing, and medicine |
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Plato and Thera |
said Thera was Atlantis because of volcano |
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Hagia Triada sarcophagus at Crete 1,400 BC Minoan - burial container |
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Homer |
700 BC - wrote odyssey and Iliad - wrote about Trojan war |
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Lion Gate 1,300 BC Mycenaean - entrance way twolions with feet on altar and column - heads are gone - post and lintel - designed to attack approach |
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Cyclopean Masonry
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- stones so big only a cyclops could move it - unfinished and never smooth - rough cut stones puttogether without mortar and filled in with ruble |
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Relieving Triangle
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keeps weight off oflintel
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Corbeled Vault
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- each course brings ina little forming a pyramid shape
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Treasury of Atreus at Mycenae 1,300 BC Mycenaean - ashler block = stones cut smooth and made to fit - interior made ofspiraled corbel vault that makes a dome - biggest coveredinterior space - Buried the body inthe ground - beehive tomb - tholos = round |
