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Star and trident motifs are often found in the “pillar crypts” of this civilization, whose other cult furniture include “horns of consecration.” (0[1])Luigi Pernier discovered (20[2])an object (20[1])on which these people stamped hieroglyphics in a spiral pattern. (0[3])The “Marine (0[1])style” (20[2])was used for (20[1])some of these people’s (20[1])Kamares ware. (20[1])This civilization’s Treasury of Atreus (0[1])is an (20[1])early example (0[1])of a beehive (0[1])tomb. (20[1]0[1])This civilization (20[1]0[1])produced the (*) Phaistos Disc and may have declined (10[1])after a tsunami (10[1])from (10[1])a volcanic (10[1])eruption (10[1])at Thera. (10[2])These people used the Linear A script (10[3])and produced (10[1])numerous (10[1])frescoes (10[1])of people leaping over bulls. Arthur Evans excavated one of this civilization’s palaces at Knossos. (10[1])For 10 points, name this Bronze Age (0[1])civilization based in Crete. (0[2])■END■ (10[6]0[3])

ANSWER: Minoan civilization [prompt on proto-Greek civilization; prompt on Cretan civilization before “Crete” is read]
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