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Collection Record
Mask, Funerary, Electrotype
Death mask replica, "Agamemnon"
Electrotype reproduction of gold death mask known as “The Mask of Agamemnon”, Label: “Mask of Agamemnon,” a gold foil death mask from one of the 16th-century BC Shaft Graves at Mycenae (electrotype replica). This mask was one of several excavated from Grave Circle A, but it is unusually detailed by comparison with other masks of the period. Found with the “Cup of Nestor”. Shaft Grave V, Mycenae. Middle Minoan/Helladic period., Original found in excavations at Mycenae by Heinrich Schliemann, Mycenae, Shaft Graves, Grave V, 16th century B, Gift of the Association of Friends of the Otago Museum
Production Primary Date:
Early 20th Century
Provenance Place:
Mycenae, Argolis, Peloponnisos, Greece
E75.10
Details
- Production Date
- Early 20th Century
- Production Place
- Athens, Attica, Greece, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany
- Provenance Place
- Mycenae, Argolis, Peloponnisos, Greece
- Credit Line
- Association of Friends of the Otago Museum; Otago Museum Collection
- Department
- Decorative Art, Archaeology
- Accession Number
- E75.10
- On Display
- Yes
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