CLARCH 221 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Lerna, Seashell, Discharging Arch

• School: U of M
• Department: Classical Archaeology
• Course: CLARCH 221
• Professor: Lisa Nevett

Document Summary

The greek mainland in the middle to late bronze age (mid helladic to mycenean period) No evidence for central public building", no fortification walls. Pithos burials (in a large jar or pithos)-used for children (argos) Makes the complex hierarchy @ places like lerna seem like experiment. Shaft grave (like a very deep, rock-cut cist) Limestone grave stele with deco in relief sculpture. Luxury goods- bronze daggers with niello (gold and silver inlay) Nilotic (style of the river nile) imagery featuring papyrus plants, etc. Gold death masks (mask of agamemnon-grave circle a) Gold foil diadem and deco with repousse work(sheet of gold hammered into mould) Silver and gold rhyton in bull"s head shape (remind: minoan) Mycenean kylix (high stemmed) cup from the argolid. Relieving triangle above the lintel (top of door frame) Environs of mycenae: distribution of 9 tholos tombs around the citadel. Lion gate- monolithic (carved from one stone) lintel. Relieving triangle-2 lions, heads originally different stone, now lost.