GREECE PELOPONNESE ARGOLIS NAFPLION MUSEUM

Above left: Amphora from Tiryns, 850-800 BC. - Above right: Tripod amphora, Navplion, Pronoia, 730 - 690 BC. - Below: Krater, Tiryns, pithos burial VIII, 730-690 BC.

Above left: Oinochoe from Barbouna, Geometric cemetery ("ceremonial area"), late 8th - early 7th century BC. - Above right: Detail of the Krater from Tiryns as above. - Below left: Krater with male figure and horses, Tiryns, 730-690 BC. - Below right: Fragment of vase with ship, Tiryns, 730-690 BC.

Above and below: Terracotta ceremonial masks, from Tiryns, 7th century BC.

Above and below: Terracotta votive shields, Tiryns, Upper Citadel, early 7th century BC. The terracotta votive shields are the most impressive finds of the "bothros", the votive deposit on the Upper Citadel of Tiryns, the content of which has been connected to the worship of Hera. The shields were possibly hung in a sacred place or used for the performance of rituals. The unique painted representations of the shields in which a tall warrior is slaying a skirted Amazon possibly depicts an episode from the Aethiopis, in which Achilles is killing Penthesilea, queen of the Amazons.