The Mycenaean Shaft Graves
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The Mycenaean Shaft Graves
MH III - beginning of LH IIA
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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
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Map of the northeastern Peloponnesos
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Plan of the site of Mycenae
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19th century drawing of the graves on the acropolis at Mycenae
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Plan of Grave Circle B (partly destroyed by tholos tomb)
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Plan of Grave Circle A, showing the six shaft graves
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Photo of Grave Circle A
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The “Mask of Agamemnon”
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More death masks from Grave Circle A
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Electrum mask from Grave Gamma, Grave Circle B
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Hexagonal gold-plated wooden box from Shaft Grave V
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Gold rhyton in shape of lion’s head; Shaft Grave IV
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Silver and gold bull’s head rhyton from Shaft Grave IV
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Metal Weaponry - Daggers (bronze inlaid with gold, silver and niello)
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Ornamental gold disks (sewn onto burial shrouds)
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Gold diadems
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Rock crystal vase in the shape of a duck, Grave Circle B
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Jewelry of stone and metal
Gold armband; Shaft Grave O, Grave Circle B
Multiple gold chain, Chamber Tomb 55
Pair of gold earrings, Shaft Grave III, Grave Circle A
Necklaces of beads and pendants,
Shaft Grave Y, Grave Circle B
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Drawing of the silver “Siege Rhyton”
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Gold goblet known as “Cup of Nestor”
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Rhyton made from the shell of an ostrich egg
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Map of Mainland Greece with some important Bronze Age sites