History Mycaeanean weapons & artwork

[Maciamo]

Mycenaean Daggers (1550-1500 BCE)
Made of Silver and Gold; found in shaft graves 4-7 in Grave Circle A, Crete, Greece.

 

[Maciamo]

Mycenaean Long Sword (17th-16th Century BCE)
With ornate gold hilt revetment, decorated with spirals and ending in lion-heads; Griffins adorn the blade, from Grave A of Grave Circle B.

Mycenaean Bronze Dagger with inlaid spiral decoration (1600-1500 BCE)
From Shaft Grave V, Grave Circle A, Mycenae, Greece.

 

[Viramund]

Before being celtic the triskelion was mycenean.

 

[Maciamo]

Mycenaean Tholos tomb at Dendra in Argolis

Golden cup hammered on its inner surface a vivid seafloor scene.

 

[lynxbythetv]

Before being celtic the triskelion was mycenean.

Or the Mycenaeans carried a material culture from the Northern Balkans through to Greece. Myceneans left a linguistic and material culture, not genetic.

 

[Pygmalion]

The triskelion was already present in the Neolithic carvings of Newgrange in Ireland dating to 3000 BC, there's also a four spirals variant of that symbol Early Minoan Crete. Triskelia are also recognizable in a Middle Minoan panther-shaped scepter from Mallia in Crete. So probably its origins have nothing to do with Celts who came much later into the picture.