greek-museums:National Archaeological Museum:Mycenaean swords and hilts: Fragment of a bronze sw
greek-museums: National Archaeological Museum: Mycenaean swords and hilts: Fragment of a bronze sword. The hilt and shoulder are decorated in the cloissone technique, in which the scale compartments are inlaid with lapis lazuli. This elaborate design ends in lion or eagle-heads, from Mycenae. Bronze dagger with golden decoration of feliformia in a landscape with bushes, from Pylos. Gold hilt and pommel revetment of a long sword from Skopelos. The sword is decorated with repousse spirals and concentric circles. The gold sheet of the hilt from the hilt was donated by the Society of Friends of the National Archaeological Museum in 1938, while the pommel was discovered inside the tomb. Bronze dagger with a golden decoration of a marinescape with nautiluses, from Pylos. Faience imitation of sword hilt with gold inlays, from Mycenae. A long bronze sword with an elaborate gold hilt revetment, decorated with spirals and ending in lion-heads. Griffins adorn the blade, from Mycenae. For some more mycenaean weapons see here and here -- source link
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