Notes: A curio!!! Not my pen and inks!(actually. I learn, they're pencil...the best way to render these tiny scenes, I gather)...the second one is a seal that can be found in google images, search: mycenean seals...and I'm off searching to find where that one was found and where it is now...the top one is in all the news!...Update: I found it...the second on is from Grave Shaft 3...the Grave Shafts are tombs dug up in the ruins of Mycenea, where the Lions Gate is...the top one is from the Griffen Warrior shaft tomb, which is at Pylos...brb...
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Shaft Grave III, the so-called 'Grave of the Women,' contained three female and two infant interments. The women were literally covered in gold jewelry and wore massive gold diadems, while the infants were overlaid with gold foil. A great number of gold roundels and other gold cut-out foils in various shapes with repousse decoration were initially embroidered onto, either the deceased's clothes, or their shrouds. The jewelry included large silver and bronze pins with rock crystal heads or with gold ornaments and sheething, a necklace of amber beads, gold earrings, and gold seals engraved with hunting or dueling scenes. Miniature gold vessels, faience vessels and gold scales were also found.
http://www.greek-thesaurus.gr/Mycenaean-Grave-Circle-A.html
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here's link to news story:
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Fritz Blakolmer, an expert on Aegean art at the University of Vienna, argues that the seal stone is a miniature copy of a much larger original, probably a stucco-embellished wall painting like those found at the Palace of Knossos on Crete. He said the seal must have been engraved by someone with a magnifying glass, even though none has been found, and dismissed the possibility that people of that era had sharper eyesight than today.
https://mobile.nytimes.com/comments/2017/11/06/science/greece-griffin-warrior-archaeology-homer.html
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brb...I happened on this site, http://www.salimbeti.com/micenei/weapons1.htm
awhile back when I was referencing King Minos for my Black Deck Tales...and went to it today just thinking to find again the bits about ship design I'd studied, and this from the interest in the seals, and to my surprise, this site has both the seals on that page about swords...but doesn't link them...but did put up where they came from...so maybe I am about much to do about not much!...but I think it all charming...and wonder if the women buried in Mycenae knew the warrior buried in Pylos...
:)
DavidDavid
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