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Greek Chronology
Bronze Age/Aegean periods (Crete, Cycladic Islands, Greek mainland)
Crete (Minoan culture)
Early Minoan I – ca. 3100/3000-2700/2650 BCE Early Minoan II – ca. 2700/2650-2150 BCE Early Minoan III – ca. 2150-2050/2000 BCE Middle Minoan IA – ca.2050/2000-2000/1950 BCE Middle Minoan IB – ca. 2000/1950-1900/1850 BCE Middle Minoan II – ca. 1900/1850-1750-1720 BCE Middle Minoan III – ca. 1750/1720-1700/1675 BCE Late Minoan IA – ca. 1675-1600 BCE (or ca.1550-1500 BCE) Late Minoan IB – ca. 1600-1500 BCE (or ca. 1500-1450 BCE) Late Minoan II – ca. 1500-1450 BCE (or ca.1450-1415 BCE) Late Minoan IIIA – ca. 1450-1340 BCE (or ca. 1415-1340 BCE) Late Minoan IIIB – ca. 1340-1190 BCE Late Minoan IIIC – ca. 1190-1125/1100 BCE
Cyclades (Cycladic culture)
Early Cycladic I (Grotta-Pelos culture) – ca. 3100/3000-2650 BCE Early Cycladic II (Keros-Syros culture) – ca.2650-2450/2400 BCE Early Cycladic IIB or IIIA (Kastri Group culture) – ca.2450/2400-2200/2150 BCE Early Cycladic III – ca. 2200/2150-2050/2000 BCE Early Cycladic IIIB or Middle Cycladic I (Phylakopi I culture) – ca.2050/2000-1900/1850 BCE
Mainland Greece (Helladic culture for Early and Middle periods, Mycenaean for Late periods)
Early Helladic I (Eutresis culture) – ca. 3100/3000-2650 BCE Early Helladic IIA (Korakou culture) – ca. 2650-2200/2150 BCE Early Helladic IIB (Lefkandi I culture) – ca.2450/2400-2200/2150 BCE Early Helladic III (Tiryns culture) – ca.2200/2150-2050/2000 BCE Middle Helladic I –ca.2050/2000-1900 BCE Middle Helladic II – ca. 2000/1900-1800 BCE (or ca.1900-1700 BCE) Middle Helladic III – ca. 1800-1700/1675 BCE (or ca.1700-1575/1550 BCE) Late Helladic I-IIA - ca. 1675/1650-1490/1470 BCE Late Helladic IIB-IIIA1 - ca. 1490/1470-1390/1370 BCE Late Helladic IIIA2-B - ca. 1390/1370-1190 BCE Late Helladic IIIC - ca. 1190-1050 BCE
Proto-Geometric Period (ca. 1000-900 BCE)
Proto-Geometric vase-painting: black bands, some compass-drawn circles
Geometric Period (ca. 900-700 BCE)
ca. 900-850 Early Geometric vase-painting: less black, more space, more circles ca. 850-760 Middle Geometric vase-painting: meander patterns, pyxides & horse-handles ca. 760-700 Late Geometric vase-painting: free use of human figures and animals, Dipylon amphorae
Orientalizing Period (ca. 725-650 BCE)
Proto-Corinthian pottery & Proto-Attic pottery (ca.710-610 BCE) Black-figure starts in Corinth ca. 720, flourishes in Athens (Attic) by 600 Small metal objects – griffin heads (protomes), cauldrons, tripods, animals, etc
Archaic Period (ca. 650-480 BCE)
Early Archaic (ca.650-580 BCE) Middle Archaic (ca. 580-535 BCE) Late Archaic (ca. 535-480 BCE)
pottery: Corinthian style, Black-figure style in Athens , then Red-figure begins ca.520 sculpture: kouroi & korai
Classical Period
Early Classical/Severe (ca. 480-450 BCE) High Classical (ca. 450-400 BCE)
Late Classical/4th century (ca. 400-330 BCE)
Periklean Building Program on the Akropolis 449-444 - Hephaisteion 447-438/432 - Parthenon (metopes, 447-443; frieze, 442-438; pediments, 438-432, dedicated 438) 437-432 - Propylaia by Mnesikles 427-424 - Temple of Athena Nike (balustrade from 409) 421/0, 409-406 - Erechtheion
Hellenistic Period
Early Hellenistic (ca.330-220 BCE) High Hellenistic (ca. 220-150 BCE) Late Hellenistic (c. 150- 31 BCE)
228 Dying Gaul & Wife, Galatian monument by Attalos I 159-138 Stoa of Attalos II, Athens (reconstructed AD 1952) 150-125 Altar of Zeus, Pergamum
Roman Period begins at different times throughout the Mediterranean.
Category
Overview
(Req, Rep, TGN/LOC Authorities/other)
The Category field is used to group together like works according to genre or discipline.
Fields
Category
For Category include the most general terms for the type of art or cultural object being cataloged, e.g. Painting, Sculpture, Drawing, etc. Category can also be used to record the academic discipline in which the object is considered, e.g. Architecture, Archaeology. In Category only use terms already in Luna. If none of the existing terms are appropriate for the work you are cataloging, see Brian or Steven before adding a new term. To assign terms that are more specific,e.g. relief, sketch, etc., use the Work_type field.
Category refid source
Record the thesaurus used to create the Category record.
Category refid
Record the refid from the thesaurus for the term used.
Examples
Category: painting (visual work)
Category refid source: Getty AAT
Category refid: 300033618
Category: Furniture
Category refid source: Getty AAT
Category refid: 300037680
Category: numismatics
Category refid source: Getty AAT
Category refid: 300054419
