Decorative Art

Electrotype, Cup

Antiquities, Decorative Art, Archaeology

E75.6

Electrotype, Dagger

Antiquities, Decorative Art

E75.8

The original is in the National Archaeological Museum of Athens (NAM 394)

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

Figurine

Antiquities, Decorative Art

E86.7

Decorative Art

On Display

Has Image

Material

Cultural Group