Title: Inlaid Daggers
Time: 1550-1500BC
Artist: Mycenean
Place: Grave Circle A
Style:
- Niello (ead and potassium mixture): acts like an inlace; a glue of dark blue galss (It is lost now) (this same niello is found in egypt and shows trade)
- nilodic motifs: from the river nile
- Hunting lions, or lions hunting brids and other animls in the nile delta, whichis symbolized on the left side by pyros plants (the most abundant plant of egypt)
- And a lot of animals like hippos!, ancient Egyptians like to hunt them to protet the good life of the nile delta
- See a mixture of greek and Egyptian motifs
- Inlaid with scenes of hunting. (in an egyptian infused w greek fashion)
Significance:
-pieces (the inlaid pieces) are a specially made material from this culture
- depictions came from egypt, shows trade
- Marked by personalized grave markers called stelai
- Large amount of gold and weapons buried to carry on with the dead in the after life
- Gold masks show attempt at portraiture
- Presence of weapons show that Mycenaeans were warlike
History:
- At this time we have the exact same technique in Egypt in the tomb of the first pharaoh of the 18th dynasy (Ah-mose, the famous one of egypt)
- So these people helped the pharoh and were given a lot of gold and became rich and powerful
- Continues to show belief in afterlife
- Extension of the ideas expressed by sarcophagus at Agia Ther
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