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Mycenaean jewelry pictures collection from greek museums
Each thumbnail photo is a link to a larger version of the same photograph.

 

Gold covering

A unique gold covering for the body and the face of an infant, consisting of pieces of gold foil. A distinctive detail are the ring-shaped earrings. Grave III (Grave of the Women), Grave Circle A, Mycenae, 16th.cent BC.

Gold necklaces

With beads in the shape of lilies and waz lilies alternating with semicircles. Tomp 10 from the Mycenaean cemetery of Midea in the Argolid. 15th cent.BC.

Gold necklace

Gold necklace with pairs of antithetic eagles. Grave V. 16th cent. BC. National Archaeological Museum of Athens

Gold diadem

Gold elliptical diadem with leaf-shapes piexes at the top. Grave III. 16th cent. BC. National Archaeological Museum of Athens.

Gold bands

From diadems and plaques from a comp revetment. Grave L. Grave Circle B, Mycenae. 17th cent.BC. National Archaeological Museum

Bracelet

Made of a thick gold sheet. In the middle, a cut-out foil was initially decorated wit iron axes (ritual weapons). The bracelet's shape and decoration (the use of iron was rare during this period) make it a powerful emblem of the Mycenaean ruler's authority. Grave IV, Grave Circle A. Mycenae,16th cent.BC. National Archaeological Museum

Wheel

Made of interwoven coils of gold wire, with criss-crossing bronze wire inside holding amber beads, typical to Tyrins. These unique ornaments were probably imported from north-west Europe. Unknown use. The Tiryns board. 15th cent.BC. National Archaeological Museum

Gold signet ring

With hunting scene. an archer targets a deer from a two-horsed chariot. Signet rings were precious objects and may have been used by the Mycenaean rulers as personal seals. Grave IV, Grave Circle A. Mycenae, 16th cent.BC. National Archaeological Museum

Rings and beads

Gold rings and beads with granulated decoration. From the Acropolis treasure of Mycenae. Grave Circle A. 15th cent.BC. National Archaeological Museum of Athens

Gold necklace

With beads of various shapes, some with granulated decoration, and lily-shaped pendant. Tomb 10. From the Mycenaean cemetery of Midea in the Argolid. 15th cent. BC. National Archaeological Museum of Athens

Gold ornaments

Gold floral ornaments of overlapping sheets, perhaps the heads of elaborate pins. Grave III (Grave of the Women), Grave Circle A, Mycenae, 16th.cent BC. National Archaeological Museum of Athens

Gold cross

In the shape of a cross. Grave III (Grave of the Women), Grave Circle A, Mycenae, 16th.cent BC. National Archaeological Museum of Athens

Gold cut-out

Jewelry from Graves IV and V, Grave Circle A, Mycenae, 16th cent.BC. National Archaeological Museum of Athens

Gold earrings

With elaborate filigree and granulated decoration. Grave III (Grave of the Women), Grave Circle A, Mycenae, 16th.cent BC. National Archaeological Museum of Athens

Gold Earrings

With pendant rosettes. Tomb 10. From the Mycenaean cemetery of Midea in the Argolid. 15th cent.BC. National Archaeological Museum of Athens

Gold diadem

An impressive gold diadem with repousse rosettes and thin sheets applied at the top. Grave III (Grave of the Women), Grave Circle A, Mycenae, 16th.cent BC. National Archaeological Museum of Athens

Gold signet ring

With military scene: two men fight with long swords, while a third one, who wears a boar's tusk helmet and holds a spear and tower-shaped shield, stands by, and a fourth figure lies on the ground, all set within a rocky landscape. Grave IV, Grave Circle A. Mycenae,16th cent.BC. National Archaeological Museum of Athens

Gold signet ring

With elaborate religious scene. A goddess seated under a tree receives offerings of lilies and poppies from two women. Two female attendants are shown in smaller scale. An idol armed with a figure-of-eight shield appears descending from high, near representations of the sun and the moon. A double axe and stylized lion heads complete the composition. From the Acropolis treasure of Mycenae. Grave Circle A. 15th cent.BC. National Archaeological Museum of Athens

Gold head

Gold flower-shaped head of a bronze pin. From the female inhumation in Grave Omicron, Grave Circle B, Mycenae,17th cent.BC. National Archaeological Museum of Athens

Mycenaean lady reconstructionl

The reconstruction is based on a picture from Axel W. Persson's book, "New Tombs at Dendra near Midea", Lund 1942.

 

   

                                                                                                                     

 

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