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GREECE PELOPONNESE ARGOLIS NAFPLION MUSEUM

2024-12-09

jug and painting

Above left: Strainer jug with bovids, Midea, second half of 13th century BC. - Above right: Square panel from a plastered floor with dolphins; palace at Tiryns, 13th century BC. - Below left: Stucco offering table, Tiryns (16th-14th century BC). - Below right: Fresco with rosettes and runnning spirals with a papyrus flower in the angles, palace at Tiryns (13th century BC).

stucco offering table fresco
griddle tray ceramics

Above: Finds from Midea, second half of the 13th century BC - a griddle tray and various ceramics. - Below left: Ladle from the West Gate of Midea, second half of 13th century BC. - Below right: Mug from Tiryns, 1250-1180 BC.

ladle mug
female figurines female figurines

Above left: Female figurines from Asine (53 in the foreground: Phi-type figurine, 1350-1300 BC; 54: naturalistic figurine, 15th century BC). - Above right: Figurines from the chamber tomb cemetery of Evangelistria (7 left: female seated figure, 1400-1300 BC; 8 right: female naturalistic figurine, 1400-1350 BC). - Below left: Female figurines, chamber tomb cemetery of Evangelistria (2 left: Phi type, 1350-1280 BC; 3 center and 4 right: proto-Phi type, 1400-1350 BC). - Below right: Figurines from Evangelistria, 1400-1350 BC (4 left and 5 center: proto-Phi type; 6 right: throne seated figurine).

female figurines figurines
bull figurine Psi-type figurines

Above: Figurines from Evangelistria - a bull figurine (1350-1300 BC) and Psi-type figurines (1300-1200 BC).

Below left: Wheel made terracotta female figures from Tiryns, Lower Citadel, 12th century BC (an exception is number 84 on the right, which is the "Lord of Asine", see below).

Below right: Female figurines (25 top left: Psi type, Tiryns, Prophitis Elias, chamber tomb VI, 1300 - 1200 BC; 26 top center: Psi type, Tiryns, Prophitis Elias, chamber tomb XIV, 1300 - 1180 BC; 27 top right: Psi type, Tiryns, Prophitis Elias, chamber tomb XV, 1180 - 1050 BC; 28 bottom left: "kourotrofos" type, Nafplion, Evangelistria, chamber tomb AI (?), 1300 - 1250 BC; 29 bottom centre: "kourotrofos" type, Asine, Barbouna, chamber tomb V, 1350 - 1250 BC; 30 bottom right: "kourotrofos" type, Berbati, chamber tomb II, 1400 - 1350 BC.

terracotta female figures female figurines

Below: The famous "Lord of Asine", a terracotta female (?) head, represented in a formal, serious expression and preserving traces of paint. Found in Asine and dated to the 12th century BC.

Lord of Asine