General Archaeology
A German businessman and hobby archaeologist who used controversial excavation methods for "excavating" Troy. He also famously used Homer as a guide for his work.
Who is Heinrich Schliemann?
The Southern/Cretan style of sculpture. Depicted women with "helmet hair", "bug" eyes, archaic smiles, wide appendages, and stiff posture.
What is Daedalic style?
Serving as evidence that life goes on after the Bronze Age collapse, this structure features a village level population, reflects changes in leadership away from the Mycenaean wanax, and the shift from bronze to iron.
What is Building T at Post-Palatial Tiryns?
These terracotta women from Kavousi are found in clusters of religious habitation.
What are "Goddesses with Upraised Arms"?
An important Attic burial. There were 50 Geometric vessels, luxury items, and cremated remains of a pregnant woman.
What is the Tomb of the Rich Athenian Lady?
The two types of dating in archaeology, one referring to time estimated in a chronological sequence, and the other calculated exactly with more "concrete science".
What is relative vs absolute dating?
A technique of metal working where one hammers and rolls sheets of metal to create a form. Would include a wooden core. (ex. Dreros bronze statues)
What is the sphyrelaton technique?
A large polyvalent structure on Euboea, featuring a burial of two humans and a horse. Potentially a communal structure, it is a definite sign of status.
Found at Panhellenic sanctuaries as votives, they were made to show off status as sanctuaries replaced burials as the primary place for displays of wealth. With "international character".
What are Bronze shields from Idean Cave, Crete?
A common Geometric pottery scene of laying out a corpse for display. (ex. Dipylon krater)
What are prothesis scenes?
A large group of peoples from the Levant. Notable for their colonization, alphabet, and trade prowess (cedar and purple dye).
Who were the Phoenicians?
Three statues (one male, two female), made in the sphyrelaton technique. Precursor to ancient Greek mainstream religious devotion.
What are the Dreros bronze statues?
A cult site to Apollo with high post-palatial importance. Demonstrates religious continuity with religious construction over older religious construction.
What is Kalapodi?
An example of Daedalic style at Delos, this statue represents a female with a religious inscription.
What is the Nikandre statue?
This cemetery uncovered on Cyprus was though to have been inspired by the burial myths of Patrokles, leading to concern over excavator confirmation bias.
What are the Royal Tombs at Salamis?
Serbo-Croation bard, whose songs were considered to be formulaic and could be compared with the Homeric epics. Recorded by Parry and Lord in 1933-1935.
Who is Avdo Mededovic?
This small pouring vessel hosts the most famous display of archaic hoplites and is controversial over whether or not the scenes in the registers can be read as a narrative. Evidence of Eastern influence.
What is the Chigi Vase?
A site located close to Mycenae, it features Cyclopean masonry AFTER the Bronze Age collapse to give itself authority over its neighbors.
What is the Argive Heraion terrace?
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A booming industry in response to Corinth, this practice had an intense focus on black-figure painting, movement, and emotion.
What is Proto-Attic pottery?
A cup found in a burial plot with an inscription thought to be a joke about a Homeric epic. 8th century BCE, in a symposium context.
What is Nestor's Cup from Pithekoussai?
The term describing the attribution of an artwork to an ancient artist/potter/studio/etc. Done by analyzing key elements of style, and pioneered by Sir John Beazley.
What is connoisseurship?
A large vessel with many mythological scenes on every part of its surface, this artwork is controversial for its narrative flow. Inspired by metalwork in the 6th century BCE.
What is the Francois vase?
This site's sculpture is known for its frieze of horsemen and the walkway stone of seated women. Cited as a hallmark of the development of temple architecture and Eastern influence in 700-800 BCE.
What is Prinias architectural sculpture?
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This artist is known for his narrative work with lots of emotion, with a fixation on Ajax as a central character in many of his works.
Who is Exekias?
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The artist who made the Sarpedon krater, with an eye for detail in red-figure painting.
Who is Euphronios?