CLASSICS 1A03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Niello, Lion Gate, Mycenaean Greece
12 Oct 2016
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Cyclopean masonry = made by the cyclopes (one-eyed giants) Mythical home to agamemnon, son of atreus, married to clytemnestra. Grave circle b: 1650-1550 bc: dated quite a bit earlier than the tholos tombs. Stone enclosed circles containing a group of shaft graves. Bodies found: 16 men, 5 women, 2 children, multiple burials in each shaft (probably families) Grave circle a: 1550-1450 bc: another grave circle within the walls of mycenae, n. b. Later than grave circle b: wall of mycenae built after the grave circle was created. It is very uncommon for grave sites to be within the city walls, implies that there may be significance to who was buried there and what they were buried with. Pattern style pottery (cid:858)(cid:272)f(cid:859): confrere (lat) = compare. 6 shaft graves, shallow, rectangular, many bodies found: funerary masks in pounded gold leafs (lade over the face of the diseased person. Individual style = attempt at portraiture: used for male burial only.
