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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