Early Mycenaean Greece - Brown University · Plans and diagrams of the main Mycenaean burial types...
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Early Mycenaean Greece
Middle Helladic
to
Late Helladic IIA
Chronology
Date (BCE) Crete Mainland
2000 Protopalatial Middle Helladic
1700 Neopalatial Grave Circle B
1600 LM IA Late Helladic I(Grave Circle A)
1500 LM IB Late Helladic IITholos tombs, Vapheio tomb
1450 Destruction of Minoan sites Late Helladic IIB
LM II
1400 LM IIIA Late Helladic IIIA
1300 LM IIIB Late Helladic IIIB
1200 LM IIIC Late Helladic IIIC
(Mycenaean palaces)
Acme of Mycenaean culture
Middle Helladic Pottery from Lerna
Argive Minyan kantharos (Lerna V)
Matt-painted kantharos (Lerna V)
Matt-painted carinated bowl (Lerna V)
Light-on-dark Matt-painted jar (Lerna V)
Middle Helladic “Minoanizing” pottery (Lerna V)
Imported MM IA “egg cup”Polychrome-painted Oatmeal
Minoanizing jar
Polychrome-painted Minoanizing teacup Polychrome-painted Minoanizing
two-handled teacup.
Lerna - MH Architecture: Apsidal Long House with associated yard and storeroom
Lerna - MH Architecture - Storeroom with pithoi in situ
Apsidal longhouse at Ayios Stephanos
Site distribution in the Peloponnesos
Plans and diagrams of the main Mycenaean burial types
Chamber tomb
Tholos tomb
Boar’s tusk and the boar’s tusk helmet
Distribution of Aeginetan Ware pottery in the Bronze Age
Tumulus at Vrana
Map of Messenia (Mycenaean “kingdom” of Pylos)
Grave stelae from Mycenae showing chariot scenes
Bronze daggers with gold and silver inlay from Mycenae
Bronze dagger (detail) of lion hunt scene
Shaft grave at Ayios Stephanos (after removal of roofing slab)
Small tholos tomb in the Messenian region (near Pylos)
Entrance to a tholos tomb at Mycenae (“Treasury of Atreus”)
MH Architecture - Plans of buildings at Asine and settlement at Malthi
Plan of the Menelaion, Mansion I, LH IIB
The Mycenaean megaron
(palatial architecture)
Miniature fresco from Room 5, West House, Akrotiri (detail)