Tour presented by: Devin Broukal
Period: Late Minoan
Item made of: Baked clay
Where: In Crete, at Knossos
Importance: Key to unlocking code to oldest recorded Greek dialect
Mantiklos "Apollo", Unknown, about 700 B.C. - 675 B.C., From the collection of: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Period: Late Geometric
Item made of: Bronze
Where: Boiotia, Thebes, Greece
Importance: Proof that Greeks where now starting to worship gods and pay tributes
Shield Strap Fragment, Aristodamos of Argos, about 575 B.C., From the collection of: The J. Paul Getty Museum
Period: Archaic
Item made of: Leather/armor
Where: Argos/ Sanctuary of Zeus at Olympia
Importance: Another way to get war stories, one of earliest ever signatures
Silver stater of Naxos, Unknown, "540-520 BC" - "", From the collection of: Museum of Cycladic Art
Period: Archaic
Item made of: Silver
Where: Island of Naxos
Importance: Very strong economic and political dimension
Period: Archaic
Item made of: Terracotta
What: Possibly a children’s toy
Importance: Example of Homers epics still in effect
Skyphos (Drinking Vessel) with the Return of Hephaistos to Olympos, Attributed to The Kleophon Painter, about 420 BCE, From the collection of: The Toledo Museum of Art
Period: Classical
Item made of: Terracotta
Where: Athens, Greece
Importance: Vases and vessels throughout history
Colossal marble head of Asklepios, -325/-300, From the collection of: British Museum
Period: Hellenistic
Item made of: Marble
Where: Shrine of Asklepios
Importance: A major influential deity throughout Greece and Asia Minor from 480-300 BC.
Cycladic "frying-pan" vessel, Unknown, "2800-2300 BC" - "", From the collection of: Museum of Cycladic Art
Period: Early Bronze Age
Item made of: Clay
Where: Grave sights all over Aegean Islands
Importance: Perspective
Credits: All media
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