History Mycaeanean weapons & artwork

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

 

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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.

 

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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.

 

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Not Mycenaen, but contemporary. A fist-shaped silver Hittite drinking vessel from ca. 1450-1300 BCE. It was used in rituals relating to Teshub, the storm god, who is depicted on the cuff relief scene. It is at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. (Photo from Classical Mythology)