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Title/Caption	Funerary Mask
Variant Title/Caption	So-called Mask of Agamemnon
Larger Work/Entity	Grave Circle A, Mycenae
Site/Creative Center	Mycenae, Peloponnese (Greece)
Date of Work	ca. 1600-1500 BCE
Description of View	Total from front center
Notes	Found at Grave Circle A, Mycenae. Large amounts of sheet gold were worn by those buried in Grave Circle A. Five wore death masks of thin sheet gold, each one with individual features.
Technique/Process	sculpture, repousse
Materials/Medium	beaten gold
Dimensions	H: 26 cm (10 1/4 in.)
Period	Aegean Bronze Age, Helladic [Mycenaean]
Century	16th Century BCE
Style of Work	Late Helladic [Mycenaean]
Location.Discovery Site	Found in Grave V, Grave Circle A, Mycenae
Location.Current Site/City & Country	Athens (Greece)
Location.Current Repository	Ethnike Pinakotheke, Mouseion Alexandrou Soutsou [National Gallery and Alexander Soutzos Museum]
Subject	Sculpture, Mycenaean Funerary art Grave goods Death masks Heads (representations)
Publisher	Saskia Ltd. Cultural Documentation
Publisher.Location	Freeport, Maine (United States)
Credit Line	(C) Dr. Ronald V. Wiedenhoeft
Reference Number	Saskia Jgc-1210
Collection Title	Sculpture (Art and Art History Department images)
Collection Information	Collection administered by Visual Resources manager, Architecture Library (402) 472-1193
Copyright Information	http://contentdm.unl.edu/ah_copyright.html