Prehistoric Aegean

Question 1

Answer 1

• Cycladic scultpure, nude woman with arms folded over torso
• From a grave in Syros, Greece ca. 2500-2300 B.C.
• National Archeological Museum, Athens

Question 2

Answer 2

• Male lyre player, Cycladic art
• From Keros, Greece, ca. 2700-2500 B.C.

Question 3

Answer 3

• legendary home of king Minos
• In Knossos (Crete), Greece, ca. 1700-1400 B.C.
• Tapering columns, Minoan

Question 4

Answer 4

• Minoan fresco of a woman, La Parisienne
• From palace of Knossos (Crete), ca. 1450-1400 B.C.
• Archeological Museum, Herakleion

Question 5

Answer 5

• Bull Leaping (Toreador Fresco)
• From the palace at Knossos (Crete), ca. 1450-1400 B.C.
• Minoan pinched waists
• Archeological Museum, Herakleion

Question 6

Answer 6

• Young fisherman with his catch, fresco
• West House, Akrotiri, Thera (Cyclades) ca. 1650 B.C.
• National Archeological Museum, Athens

Question 7

Answer 7

• Landscape with swallows (Spring Fresco)
• From Akrotiri, Thera (Cyclades) ca. 1650 B.C.
• First pure landscape painting
• National Archeological Museum, Athens

Question 8

Answer 8

• Kamares Ware jug
• From Phaistos (Crete), Greece ca. 1800-1700 B.C.
• Sea life a common theme in Minoan pottery
• Archeological Museum, Herakleion

Question 9

Answer 9

• Marine style octopus jar
• From Crete, Greece ca. 1500 B.C.
• Black figure
• Archaelogical Museum, Herakleion

Question 10

Answer 10

• Sarcophagus from Hagia Triada, Crete, Greece ca. 1450-1400 B.C.
• Women lighter than the men
• Archaelogical Museum, Herakleion

Question 11

Answer 11

• Harvester Vase
• Crowd singing while harvesting the field
• From Crete, Greece ca. 1500 B.C.
• Archeological Museum, Herakleion

Question 12

Answer 12

• Snake Goddess
• From the Palace at Knossos, ca. 1600 B.C.
• Archeological Museum, Herakleion

Question 13

Answer 13

• Cyclopean Masonry in Tiryns, Greece

Question 14

Answer 14

• The Lion Gate
• From Mycenae, Greece ca. 1300-1250 B.C.
• Limestone, relief, heraldic composition

Question 15

Answer 15

• Vault in the Tholos of the Treasury of Atreus
• Clerestory, largest dome until the Pantheon
• From Mycenae, Greece ca. 1300-1250 B.C.

Question 16

Answer 16

• Funerary mask from a grave
• From Mycenae, Greece ca. 1600-1500 B.C.
• Found by Schliemann, golden beaten mask (repousse)
• National Archeological Museum, Athens

Question 17

Answer 17

• Inlaid dagger blade with lion hunt
• From Mycenae, Greece ca. 1600-1500 B.C.
• Bronze inlaid with gold, niello
• National Archeological Museum, Athens

Question 18

Answer 18

• Head of a Sphinx
• From Mycenae, Greece ca. 1300-1250 B.C.
• Painted plaster
• National Archeological Museum, Athens

Question 19

Answer 19

• Warrior Vase Krater
• From Mycenae, Greece ca. 1200 B.C.
• National Archaelogical Museum, Athens