This term for art that has been faked applies to some supposedly ancient Cycladic artifacts that have been sold on the art market.
What is a "forgery"?
100
This amateur archaeologist discovered the citadel of Mycenae in the late 19th century.
Who is Heinrich Schliemann?
100
This term refers to a hilltop city that has been fortified to protect it from enemies.
What is a "citadel"?
100
This Aegean culture existed simultaneously with that of the Sumerians, Akkadians, and Old Kingdom Egyptians.
What is "Cycladic"?
100
This term usually refers to a circular building; in Mycenae, it refers to the culture's customary beehive-shaped tombs.
What is "tholos"?
200
Male Cycladic statues are often shown seated and playing this musical instrument.
What is a "harp"?
200
This artifact possibly showing a likeness of Agamemnon was discovered in Grave Circle A and dates to between 1600-1500 BC.
What is the Funerary Mask of Agamemnon?
200
Mainland Greece or on an Aegean island -- this is the location of Mycenae.
What is "mainland Greece"?
200
This culture is credited with conquering the dying Minoan culture c.1450 BC and occupying its cultural sites, such as Knossos.
What is Mycenaean?
200
This type of arch consists of blocks built gradually inward toward a keystone that secures the weight of both sides of the arch
What is a "corbeled arch"?
300
This gender of Cycladic statue is usually slender, flattened, and depicted with stylized sexual organs.
What is "female"?
300
This Mycenaean monument employs both post-and-lintel construction and a corbeled dome.
What is the Treasury of Atreus?
300
This term refers to the hammered metal-working technique used to make the funerary masks found at Grave Circle A.
What is "repousse"?
300
This legendary king of Mycenae conquered Troy in Homer's Iliad.
Who is Agamemnon?
300
This is the simplest form of architecture and may be found at sites throughout the world, including Stone Henge, the Lion Gate, and even your house.
What is "post-and-lintel"?
400
We studied this Paleolithic sculpture of a woman as a sharp contrast to the physical type of Cycladic female statues.
What is the "Venus of Willendorf"?
400
This Mycenaean monument features a relief sculpture depicting two majestic animals facing one another with a Minoan column between them.
What is the Lion Gate?
400
This is the space at the top of a corbeled arch that helps to absorb the weight of the masonry. At the Lion Gate, this is decorated with lions facing each other.
What is a "relieving triangle"?
400
Artwork from this culture has been copied and emulated by modern artists of the 20th century due to the abstraction and elegant geometry of its statues.
What is "Cycladic"?
400
This adjective refers to the enormous masonry used to build the walls and structures of Mycenae, so-called for the bricks' weight and the belief that only a giant from Homeric myth could lift them.
What is "Cyclopean"?
500
This art material is a natural resource and major source of income for the Cycladic islands. Beginning with Cycladic statues, it became the most common material for sculptures in ancient Greece.
What is "marble"?
500
This term refers to the supernatural ability of a sculpture or other artifact to ward off evil and refers to the magical powers believed to be possessed by the Lion Gate relief.
What is "apotropaic"?
500
The architecture of this culture must have influenced that of the Mycenaeans, since a column of their type was depicted on the Lion Gate relief between the two lion figures.
What is "Minoan"?
500
The Mycenaeans conquered the Minoans around this year.
What is 1450 BC?
500
These tomb structures were found at Grave Circle A by Heinrich Schliemann and revealed the burial places of nineteen people and a wealth of rich Mycenaean artifacts.