Some shots from the surprisingly good Archeologica museum of Nafiplio. Argos/Nafiplion valley is the center of the Myceane Bronze age culture, the museum had many good exhibits from that era. Not all these pics are pre Iron age. I’m trying to post fewer pretty pottery shots, I and I suspect you all are saturated with Ceramics.
But… these are particualary nice and show some of the really unnique forms. Amphora with two loop handels attached to the neck, or to a closed top post with a seperate spout, are called stirrup jars. Pitchers with a tall neck which is pulled into a spout on one side, cut & folded back to form the handle oppisite spout. A few are two or even three vessels joined togeather with the handel.
OOps looks like I cut away (in the shot) the actual cut away spout.
And below the Myceane suit of Brass Armor. This looks like it would be rather impossible to fight on foot incased in this barely articulated sheets of bronze, so I’m guessing this is chariot armor. The general/chief crusing around the battle less bothered by pesky showers of arrows.
Oh yea to highlight the specialness of this guy his helmet amor is is made of Boars tusk!
I see text in the post above about cult clay figures. So I best add some shots of those little guys. ….
No doubt if I was composeing this on a laptop my media selection could better coordinate with the text post. Basicaly I can’t read text when selecting, just trust my shooting sequence aligns with pics to text. Need to work on the sequence consistency.
Heavy rain today and when it let up I went out for a snack, really felt like it was maybe gonna snow, Google says 42′ F but wind & chill factor! Time for lower latitudes, Saturday 10:20 flight to Sri Lanka. Fewer posts & marble sculpture more exotic culture,
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