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Funerary mask, from Grave Circle A, Mycenae, Greece.
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Funerary mask, from Grave Circle A, Mycenae, Greece.
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Title
Funerary
mask
, from
Grave
Circle
A,
Mycenae
,
Greece
.
Date
1600-1500 BCE?
Cultural Context
Mycenaean
Greek
Ancient Greek
Aegean
European
Western European
Style/Period
Mycenaean
Greek (ancient)
Prehistoric
Bronze Age
Theme
Sculpture (visual work)
Masks (costume)
Face masks
Ceremonial masks
Ceremonial objects
Funerary objects
Funerary sculpture
Funerary art
Goldwork
Metalwork
Figurative art
Figures (representations)
Front views
Men (male humans)
Faces (animal or human components)
Subject
Sculpture
Masks
Ceremonial objects
Goldwork
Metalwork
Funeral rites & ceremonies
Rites & ceremonies
Men
Faces
Beards
Mustaches
Ears
Description
"
Just
inside
the
Lion
Gate
,
[Heinrich]
Schliemann
uncovered
what
archaeologists
now
designate
as
Grave
Circle
A.
It
predates
the
Lion
Gate
and the
walls
of
Mycenae
by
some
three
centuries
.
Grave
Circle
A
encloses
six
deep
shafts
that had
served
as
tombs
for
kings
and their
families
. The
Mycenaeans
laid
their
dead
to
rest
on the
floors
of these
shaft
graves
with
masks
covering
their
faces
,
recalling
the
Egyptian
funerary
practice
. They
buried
women
with their
jewelry
and
men
with their
weapons
and
golden
cups
.
[…]
Among
the
most
spectacular
of
Schliemann's
finds
is
a
beaten
(respoussé)
gold
mask
,
one
of
several
from the
royal
burial
complex
.
It
often
has been
compared
to the
fabulous
gold
mummy
mask
of
Tutankhamen
. The
treatment
of the
human
face
is
, of
course
,
more
primitive
in the
Mycenaean
mask
. But this was
one
of the
first
known
attempts
in
Greece
to
render
the
human
face
at
life-size
,
whereas
Tutankhamen's
mask
stands
in a
long
line
of
monumental
Egyptian
sculptures
going
back
more
than a
millennium
.
It
is
not
known
whether
the
Mycenaean
masks
were
intended
as
portraits
, but the
goldsmiths
recorded
different
physical
types
with
care
. They
portrayed
youthful
faces
as
well
as
mature
ones
.
Our
example
, with its
full
beard
,
must
depict
a
mature
man
,
perhaps
a
king
-
although
not
Agamemnon
, as
Schliemann
wished
. If
Agamemnon
was a
real
king
, he
lived
some
300
years
after
this
mask
was
fashioned.
"
(Excerpt
,
p.100)
Material
Beaten gold
Gold (metal)
Precious metal
Metal
Measurements
Approx. 1' high
Technique
Repoussé
Goldsmithing
Metalworking
Work Type
Sculpture
Masks
Funerary objects
Ceremonial objects
Metalwork
Repository
National Archaeological Museum (Athens, Greece)
Source
Kleiner, Fred S., and Christin J. Mamiya. Gardner's Art Through the Ages. 12th ed. Belmont, CA: Thomson/Wadsworth, 2005. (fig.4-23, p.100)
Rights
Photo credit/reproduced in Kleiner courtesy: Hirmer Fotoarchiv, Munich.
Digital Publisher
University of Louisville Department of Fine Arts/Allen R. Hite Art Institute Visual Resources Center
Format
image/jpeg
Digital File Name
VRC
498-03.jpg
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