Jewel__A_Celebration_of_Earth_s_Treasures

288 MASK OF AGAMEMNON

Finer details are chased

(cut) into the gold

Holes where mask

would have been

attached to the

face with twine

Mask of Agamemnon | c.1500 BCE | Gold mask, repoussé method | Discovered in a burial shaft designated Grave V, at the site Grave Circle A, Mycenae

Chin is prominent,

unlike other indistinct

masks of the period

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