Greece and Rome Flashcards
Kamares Ware Jug
Type: jug
Material: painted clay
Measurements: H. 27 cm
Culture: Cretan
Date/Period: ca. 2000-1550 BCE/Middle Minoan
Style Period: Middle Minoan (Kamares Style)
Discovery Location: Phaistos (Crete, Greece)
Repository: Archeological Museum (Heraklion, Greece)
Daggers
Type: dagger
Materials/Technique: bronze inlaid with gold, silver, and niello
Culture: Minoan or Mycenaean
Date/Period: 16th century BCE/Late Helladic (Bronze Age)
Style Period: Late Helladic (Bronze Age)
Discovery Location: Shaft Graves IV and V, Grave Circle A, Mycenae (Pelopónnisos, Greece)
Repository: National Museum (Athens, Greece)
Funerary Krater
Type: krater
Material: terracotta
Culture: Attic (Greek)
Date/Period: 8th century BCE/Late Geometric
Style Period: Late Geometric (Early Iron Age)
Discovery Location: Served as a grave marker; Unexcavated (Unknown)
Repository: The Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, NY)
Funerary Krater (detail of the funeral [prothesis] scene)
Type: krater
Material: terracotta
Culture: Attic (Greek)
Date/Period: 8th century BCE/Late Geometric
Style Period: Late Geometric (Early Iron Age)
Discovery Location: Served as a grave marker; Unexcavated (Unknown)
Repository: The Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, NY)
“Bilingual” Amphora
Type: amphora
Material: painted clay
Creator: attributed to the Lysippides Painter (black figure) and the Andokides Painter (red figure)
Culture: Attic (Greek)
Date/Period: ca. 520 BCE/Archaic (Early Iron Age)
Style Period: Archaic (Early Iron Age)
Discovery Location: Unknown
Repository: Staatliche Antikensammlungen (Munich, Bayern, Germany) [State Antiques Collection]
“Bilingual” Amphora (detail, black figure side, Herakles banqueting on Mt. Olympos)
Type: amphora
Material: painted clay
Creator: attributed to the Lysippides Painter (black figure)
Culture: Attic (Greek)
Date/Period: ca. 520 BCE/Archaic (Early Iron Age)
Style Period: Archaic (Early Iron Age)
Discovery Location: Unknown
Repository: Staatliche Antikensammlungen (Munich, Bayern, Germany)
“Bilingual” Amphora (detail, red figure side, Herakles banqueting on Mt. Olympos)
Type: amphora
Material: painted clay
Creator: attributed to the Andokides Painter (red figure)
Culture: Attic (Greek)
Date/Period: ca. 520 BCE/Archaic (Early Iron Age)
Style Period: Archaic (Early Iron Age)
Discovery Location: Unknown
Repository: Staatliche Antikensammlungen (Munich, Bayern, Germany)
White-ground Lekythos (detail, woman seated on a klismos chair)
Type: lekythos
Material: painted clay
Creator: attributed to Achilles Painter
Culture: Attic (Greek)
Date/Period: mid-5th century BCE/High Classical
Style Period: High Classical
Discovery Location: Erétria (Greece)
Repository: National Archaeological Museum (Athens, Central Greece and Euboea, Greece)
Gold Larnax (within a stone sarcophagus)
Type: larnax
Material: gold
Creator: Greek
Date/Period: 4th century BCE/Hellenistic
Style Period: Hellenistic
Discovery Location: Antechamber, Tomb of Phillip II (Vergina, Macedonia, Greece)
Repository: Archeological Museum (Thessaloniki, Greece)
Fabric from Gold Larnax
Type: textile material
Materials: fabric with purple thread
Creator: Greek
Date/Period: 4th century BCE/Hellenistic
Style Period: Hellenistic
Discovery Location: Antechamber, Tomb of Phillip II (Vergina, Macedonia, Greece)
Repository: Archeological Museum (Thessaloniki, Greece)
Diadem from Gold Larnax (detail)
Type: diadem
Materials: gold with blue glass paste
Creator: Greek
Date/Period: 4th century BCE/Hellenistic
Style Period: Hellenistic
Discovery Location: Antechamber, Tomb of Phillip II (Vergina, Macedonia, Greece)
Repository: Archeological Museum (Thessaloniki, Greece)
Gemma Augustea
Type: cameo
Materials/Technique: carved onyx, gold setting
Culture: Roman
Date/Period: ca. 10 CE/Imperial
Alteration Date/Period: 17th century/German
Discovery Location: Unknown
Repository: Kunsthistorisches Museum (Vienna, Austria)
Portland Vase
Type: vase
Material/Technique: cameo glass
Culture: Roman
Date/Period: late 1st century BCE-1st century CE/Imperial
Discovery Location: Unknown
Repository: British Museum (London, UK)
Bed
Type: bed
Materials: wood (restored); fittings of bronze inlaid with silver and copper
Culture: Roman
Date/Period: 1st century BCE-1st century CE/Imperial
Discovery Location: Amiternum (Abruzzi, Italy)
Repository: Museo Capitolino (Rome, Italy)
Necklace
Type: necklace
Materials: gold, emerald, mother of pearl
Culture: Roman
Date/Period: before 79 CE/Imperial
Discovery Location: Pompeii (Campania, Italy)
Repository: Museo Archeologico Nazionale (Naples, Italy)
