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Hunting scene on the Lion Hunt Dagger blade (left) and bull's head (right), Grave IV. The site of Mycenae was the first in Greece to be subjected to a modern archaeological excavation. [ 32 ] The German archaeologist Heinrich Schliemann excavated it in 1876 along with Panagiotis Stamatakis , a Greek archaeologist appointed to supervise the ...
One of the daggers found in Grave IV in Grave Circle A depicted a lion hunt, which may represent another status marker as the lion hunt was a motif that connected power and leadership. The dagger also contained certain aspects like the hunters wearing tall oxhide shields that were common in Greek frescoes. [7]
English: Dagger. Bronze, inlaid with silver and gold. Hunting lions. Mycenaean Late Bronze Age, ca. 16 century BCE. National Archaeological Museum of Athens N 394. The original image was taken by Zde and filed on Wikimedia commons with CCASA 3.0 license.
Blade of the "Lion Hunt Dagger", National Archaeological Museum, Athens The most famous of these are a few inlaid with elaborate scenes in gold and silver set against a black (or now black) " niello " background, whose actual material and technique have been much discussed.
Depiction of a hunting scene on a dagger blade, 16th century BC, probably Minoan, buried at Mycenae, Greece. A lion hunt shown in gold work on a belt plaque, Late Roman, 4th century, Turkey.
Grave Stele I, "Simile," from Grave Circle A, Mycenae. Currently on display at the National Archaeological Museum of Athens. All 21 stelai found at Grave Circle A were cut from oolithic limestone, a material used in many other Mycenaean constructions. [1] Many of these stelai just survive in fragments, though most are rectangular in shape.
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 complex was constructed outside the fortification walls of Mycenae and together with Grave Circle A represent one of the major characteristics of the early phase of the Mycenaean civilization.
c. 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 Museum of Athens . References