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100
It is the main function of the kouloures at Mallia.
What are granaries?
100
The oldest monumental sculpture in all of Europe.
What is the Lion's Gate?
100
The Minoan town site where the Governor’s House is located.
What is Gournia?
100
The Minoan villa site where the Chieftain’s Cup, the Boxer Vase, and the Harvester Vase were all discovered.
What is Ayia Triadha?
100
The label given to the chronological period covering MM III through LHIB (or ca. 1725 – 1500 BC).
What is the New (or Second) Palace Period?
200
Meaning ‘many doors’ in Greek, it is the name for the pier-and-door partition.
What is polythyron?
200
The mainland palace where the Lyre Player Fresco was discovered.
What is Pylos?
200
The house near the palace of Knossos where there is archaeological evidence of cannibalism.
What is the North House?
200
A terracotta object on which is stamped an enigmatic script that has never been deciphered.
What is the Phaistos Disk?
200
The relative chronological date of the eruption of the volcano on Thera.
What is Late Minoan IA?
300
The fresco that appears to show a religious gathering of men and women in the central court at Knossos.
What is the Grandstand Fresco?
300
A fortified site located in Boeotia that was likely a military stronghold.
What is Gla?
300
The location of the tholos tomb known as the Treasury of Minyas.
What is Orchomenos?
300
The name (i.e., Greek letter) of one of three main types of Mycenaean figurines.
What is Tau, Psi, or Phi?
300
The absolute dating technique used to date the hull of the Uluburn shipwreck.
What is dendrochronology?
400
A well-preserved Minoan burial container painted with scenes of religious activity.
What is the Ayia Triadha Sarcophagus?
400
The oldest complete set of bronze armour from Europe.
What is the Dendra Panoply?
400
The name given to what may be the first mainland Greek palace, located near Sparta.
What is the Menelaion (or Megaron/Mansion I)?
400
The wife of an Egyptian pharaoh whose name was found on a gold scarab from the Uluburn shipwreck.
Who is Nefertiti?
400
The absolute date for the beginning of both Late Minoan IIIC and Late Helladic IIIC period.
What is ca. 1200 BC?
500
The building in Akrotiri in which the Miniature Ship Fresco is found.
What is the West House?
500
The three categories of evidence which suggest the Mycenaean occupation of Knossos.
What are pottery, Linear B, and Warrior Graves?
500
One of two Minoan sites which seems to have flourished after all the other palaces were destroyed.
What is Kommos or Chania?
500
The location where the famous Warrior Vase was discovered.
What is Mycenae?
500
The archaeological stratum at Troy which is believed by many to be Homer’s Troy.
What is Troy 7a?