GREECE ATTICA ATHENS NAMA PREHISTORIC

Above left: Ithyphallic figurine of the Neolithic period, ca. 4500-3200 BC. - Above right: Cycladic marble figurine of the Plastiras-type, Grotta-Pelos-Culture, ca. 3200-2800 BC. - Below left: Marble figurine of the Early Cycladic I period, Grotta-Pelos-Culture, ca. 3200-2800 BC. - Below right: Head of a Cycladic figurine, Parian marble with traces of paint, Early Cycladic II period, Keros-Syros-Culture, ca. 2800-2300 BC.

Above: Marble Cycladic figurines of the Dokathismata-Type, Early Cycladic II period, Keros-Syros-Culture, ca. 2800-2300 BC. - Below: Early Cycladic pottery.

Left: Funerary gold mask from shaft grave V in "Grave Circle A" at Mycenae. At its discovery, Heinrich Schliemann claimed to "have gazed upon the face of Agamemnon". Meanwhile it is known to come from the 16th century BC, which is definitely earlier than the death of Agamemnon.

Below: Two more gold masks from "Grave Circle A" at Mycenae, where six shaft graves were cut 7.50 m deep into the rock. During Schliemann's excavations 19 skeletons were found there.