Grave Circle A is a 16th-century BC royal cemetery situated to the south of the Lion Gate, the main entrance of the Bronze Age citadel of Mycenae in southern...
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Grave Circle B in Mycenae is a 17th–16th century BCE royal cemetery situated outside the late Bronze Age citadel of Mycenae, southern Greece. This burial...
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There were a number of grave stelai or stelae found among the six shaft graves at Grave Circle A in the site of Mycenae. These stelai mark the burial sites...
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There have been many discoveries of gold grave goods at Grave Circles A and B in the Bronze Age city of Mycenae. Gold has always been used to show status...
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ancient Greek cities Boar's tusk helmet Fortification of Mycenae Gold Grave Goods at Grave Circles A and B National Archaeological Museum of Athens Christos...
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The death masks of Mycenae are a series of golden funerary masks found on buried bodies within a burial site titled Grave Circle A, located within the...
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Shaft tomb (redirect from Shaft grave)
archaeological site of the Capacha and subsequent cultures. Grave Circle A, Mycenae Grave Circle B, Mycenae Grave field Ixtlán del Rio (archaeological site) Shaft...
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Mycenaean Greece (redirect from Fall of Mycenae)
Mycenaean period alongside more elaborate family graves. The shaft graves at Mycenae within Grave Circles A and B belonging to the same period represent an...
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Cup of Nestor or dove cup is a gold goblet discovered in 1876 by Heinrich Schliemann in Shaft IV of Grave Circle A, Mycenae, which is usually dated to the...
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Mask of Agamemnon (category Mycenae)
in 1876, in a shaft tomb designated Grave V, at the site Grave Circle A, Mycenae. A total of eight men were discovered in Grave Circle A, all of whom...
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Lion Gate (redirect from Mycenae lion gate)
Cyclopean masonry Grave Circle A, Mycenae History of lions in Europe Mycenaean civilization Royal Institute of British Architects, whose emblem is a modified representation...
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expanded significantly with the inclusion of Grave Circle A and the addition of the Lion Gate. Mycenae had a wall of large, irregular stones that were laid...
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Greek Government, the Greek Archaeological Society and the society of Mycenae. Major benefactors were Eleni Tositsa who donated the land for the building...
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several bronze daggers from shaft grave royal tombs at Mycenae (in Grave Circle A and Grave Circle B), especially in long thin scenes running along the...
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on grave stelae, in particular the group of Grave stelai from Grave Circle A, Mycenae. These show similar subjects to the metalwork from the graves, but...
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account is considered part of Greek mythology. c. 1550 BC: The city of Mycenae, located in the northeast Peloponnesus, comes to dominate the rest of Achaea...
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Treasury of Atreus (category Mycenae)
of Atreus or Tomb of Agamemnon is a large tholos or beehive tomb constructed between 1300 and 1250 BCE in Mycenae, Greece. It is the largest and most...
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1550 BC–1500 BC—Dagger blades with lion hunt, from Shaft Grave IV, Grave Circle A, at Mycenae, Greece, are made. They are now at National Archaeological...
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Combat helmet (redirect from Mº 44 E.T.A. de Paracaidista)
2022. "Shaft Graves, Mycenae". Archived from the original on 3 July 2010. Retrieved 3 July 2010. Nobuo Komita, The Grave Circles at Mycenae and the Early...
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1923, during which time he produced the famous reconstruction of Grave Circle A, Mycenae.[citation needed] From the 1920s to the 1950s, de Jong applied...
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BC—"Mask of Agamemnon" Funerary mask, from the royal tombs at Mycenae, Greece, is made. Grave Circle A. It is now at National Archaeological Museum of Athens...
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were known in the Mycenaean world from the 17th century BC (Shaft Graves, Mycenae) to the 10th century BC (Elateia, Central Greece). The helmet was made...
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Papadimitriou [el], he was given responsibility for the excavation of Mycenae's Grave Circle B in the early 1950s, and from 1957 until 1985 excavated on the...
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including both tragedy and comedy. Greece is a developed country, a member of the European Union since 1981, a member of the Economic and Monetary Union...
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University Press. ISBN 9780521119542. The most famous object from Shaft Grave V, if not all of Mycenaean Greece, is the gold mask popularly known as the...
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worn by women as necklaces not unlike those found in the shaft grave circles of Mycenae. Ialongo, N.; Rahmstorf, L. (2019). "The identification of balance...
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1921 with him in Macedonia, and with the school's director, Alan Wace, at Mycenae. In 1923, Heurtley succeeded Casson as the BSA's assistant director, and...
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Panagiotis Stamatakis (category Mycenae)
Stamatakis returned to Mycenae early in January 1877. Following the observation of a trench to the south side of the Grave Circle, Stamatakis excavated...
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resembles the one depicted on the gold cushion seal from Shaft Grave III in Grave Circle A in Mycenae (and is similar to other Late Bronze Age signets or seals...
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Silver Siege Rhyton (category Mycenae)
The Silver Siege Rhyton is a silver vessel discovered in Shaft Grave IV of Grave Circle A at Mycenae and is dated to c. 1600–1500 BCE, or during the Late...
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