home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- 16 0 The so-called 'Mask of Agamemnon', a gold death mask from a Circle A shaft grave.
- 17 0 The entrance to the most impressive tholos tomb at Mycenae, fancifully named the 'Treasury of Atreus'.
- 15 0 A reconstruction of the citadel at Mycenae.
- 14 0 A reconstruction of the palace at Pylos.
- 18 0 This room in Knossos palace, known as the 'throne room', may have been added by the Mycenaeans.
- 3 0 A Cypriot 'krater' (wine-mixing bowl) decorated with a painting of chariots.
- 4 0 A perfume jar found at Nuraghe Antigori on Sardinia, a typical Mycenaean export, and an oxhide copper ingot.
- 5 0 An ivory inlay from Mycenae in the form of a warrior wearing a helmet made of boars' tusks.
- 6 0 A reconstruction of the citadel at Tiryns with its massive 'cyclopean' walls.
- 7 0 A suit of Mycenaean armour found at Dendra comprising a bronze breastplate, bronze greaves and a boars' tusk helmet.
- 8 0 A chariot depicted in a wall painting from Pylos.
- 19 0 A painting from Pylos showing a battle between well-armed Mycenaean Greeks and wild attackers clad in skins.
- 9 0 The city of Troy in its period VI.
- 20 0 A Mycenaean pot depicting an octopus: a fine example of Mycenaean artistic achievement.
- 10 0 Eggshell-thin Kamares pottery was widely appreciated, being found as far afield as Syria and Egypt.
- 11 0 The Minoan palace at Phaistos on the south coast of Crete.
- 11 1 The Minoan palace at Phaistos on the south coast of Crete.
- 11 2 The Minoan palace at Phaistos on the south coast of Crete.
- 12 0 A goddess figurine with snakes.
- 13 0 One of the fine stone figures from the Cyclades, depicting a man playing a lyre.
- 2 0 A huge circular stone object with hemispherical depressions around its rim: an offering table? From the palace at Mallia.
- 1 0 A fine example of decorated Minoan pottery, which often took its themes from the sea around the island.
- 21 0 A bronze double axe, one of the few objects bearing an inscription (detail shown) in the Cretan Hieroglyphic script.
- 22 0 One of the tablets inscribed in Linear A script: they were preserved by being baked in an accidental fire. From Hagia Triada.
- 23 0 A tablet inscribed in the Linear B script, which can be read.
-