Discovering the Greeks: Mid-Term Image Bank Review

Vocabulary practice flashcards covering essential monuments, artifacts, wall paintings, and architecture from the Aegean Bronze Age through the Archaic Greek period.

Polychrome (multi-colored) Vase from Late

Neolithic Dimini (5300-3300 BCE) featuring dynamic curvilinear and spiral motifs painted in polychrome white and red against a dark ground.

Dimini Settlement
A Late Neolithic fortified village in Thessaly, Greece, notable for its concentric stone circuit walls surrounding an open central court and a megaron-style structure (large central building)

Cycladic Figurine, from Island of Naxos
A schematic marble statuette from the Early Cycladic II period (c. 2700–2300 BCE), characterized by folded arms (left over right), a backward-tilted head, and an incised pubic triangle.

Palace at Knossos
The largest Bronze Age Minoan complex on Crete, organized around a massive Central Court and containing multi-storied residential quarters, West Magazines for storage, and the Throne Room.

Minoan Snake Goddess
A faience statuette from the Temple Repositories at Knossos (c. 1600 BCE), depicting a female figure in a tiered flounced skirt and open-bodice dress holding writhing serpents, topped with a feline headpiece.

Theran Shaved Head Iconography

A visual convention found in wall paintings from Akrotiri (such as Xeste 3), where blue scalps with reserved locks indicate childhood or adolescence in transitional coming-of-age rituals.

Saffron Gatherers Fresco

A Late Cycladic wall painting from Xeste 3 at Akrotiri on Thera, depicting young women harvesting crocus sativus stamens across a rocky landscape for ritual dedication.

Akrotiri Flotilla Fresco (Shipwreck Detail)

A section of the Miniature Frieze from Room 5 of the West House at Akrotiri (Thera), illustrating a maritime narrative including drowned warriors, damaged ships, and seaside fortifications.

Lion Hunt Dagger

A Late Helladic I bronze dagger from Shaft Grave IV of Grave Circle A at Mycenae, decorated in niello, gold, and silver inlay showing hunters with figure-eight and tower shields confronting a lion.

Grave Circle A

A 16th-century BCE royal shaft-grave cemetery enclosed by a double ring of standing limestone slabs, located within the fortified citadel of Mycenae just inside the Lion Gate.

Treasury of Atreus

A monumental 13th-century BCE Mycenaean tholos (beehive) tomb featuring a long dromos, an ashlar stomion doorway, and a corbelled dome protected by a relieving triangle.

Heroon at Lefkandi (Toumba Building)

A monumental Early Iron Age apsidal building (c. 1000–950 BCE) on Euboea surrounded by an early timber peristyle, enclosing elite human burials and sacrificed horses beneath an earthen mound.

Centaur of Lefkandi

A Protogeometric terracotta statuette (c. 900 BCE) found split between two graves at Lefkandi, decorated with geometric designs and possessing six fingers and a distinctive wound on its front right knee.

Mykonos Pithos

An Archaic relief storage jar (c. 675–650 BCE) featuring the earliest surviving depiction of the Trojan Horse on its neck and relief metopes on its body showing atrocities from the Sack of Troy.

Dipylon Krater

A monumental Attic Late Geometric funerary vessel (c. 750 BCE) attributed to the Hirschfeld Workshop, featuring registers of geometric ornament, a central prothesis scene, and a chariot procession.

Heraion of Samos

A prominent sanctuary dedicated to Hera on Samos, documenting key phases in early Greek monumental architecture from the Hekatompedon (100-foot temple) to the massive dipteral temple of Rhoikos.

Eleusis Amphora

A Protoattic monumental vase (c. 670–650 BCE) by the Polyphemos Painter, renowned for its neck depiction of Odysseus and his companions blinding the Cyclops Polyphemos.

Temple C Metope at Selinus

An Archaic limestone relief (c. 540 BCE) from Selinus in Sicily depicting the hero Perseus beheading Medusa in the presence of Athena while Medusa clutches the winged horse Pegasus.

Spartan Ivory Ship Plaque

An Archaic carved ivory relief from the Sanctuary of Artemis Orthia at Sparta, depicting an armed multi-oared galley and indicating early Spartan maritime engagement and dedicated craftwork.

Archaic Bronze Hoplite

A 6th-century BCE bronze statuette exemplifying the panoply of a Greek heavy infantryman, including a high-crested Corinthian helmet, an anatomical bell cuirass, and greaves.

Phrasikleia Kore

An exceptionally preserved Archaic marble funerary statue (c. 550–540 BCE) by Aristion of Paros, representing an unwed maiden clad in an elaborately polychrome chiton and holding a lotus bud.

Attic Funerary Pinax

A black-figure terracotta plaque used at grave markers to illustrate the ritual prothesis (lying-in-state), depicting male and female mourners gesturing in lamentation around the deceased.

Ostrakon (pl. Ostraka)

A broken piece of ceramic inscribed with a political figure's name (such as Themistokles, son of Neokles) cast as a vote by Athenian citizens during ostracism proceedings to exile individuals deemed dangerous to the democracy.

Bull’s Head Rhyton,Knossos

1550-1500 BCE