Mycenean epoch, c.1300 B.c., large archway that enters the city. Lintel made of monolith, corbelled structure, reliveing triangle with lion relief, cyclopic, lion's heads made of other material, lion's in heraldic stance, fallen off, en face, lions as gaurdians similar to Egypt and near East, possible lions were composite beasts like the sphynx
Funerary Mask from Royal Tombs at Mycenae
1600 B.C. ancient Mycenean Era, gold repousse mask used to adorn face of embalmed (after the Egyptians) and wrapped deceased.Done for a king? Found in the treasury of Atreus. compared to mummy mask of King Tutenkhamen. One of first known attempts to render a face lifesize in ancient Greece. Portrait? Example of mature face, but youthful ones also found
