Pyxis From Mycenae

Aug 02, 2014 16:24


Now here's a gorgeous pyxis, or trinket box, from Mycenae featuring lions, horses, bulls, and deer that you won't find at a modern department store.


Only the gold panels were found, the wooden box having disintegrated in the ground long ago; they're mounted on a modern replacement, letting us see how the pyxis would have looked centuries ago.

Don't assume the pyxis would have belonged to a woman.  Mycenaean men wore jewelry, too.  Agamemnon might have owned something like this.

mycenaeans, artwork, fashion, mycenae

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