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- Mycenaean citadel settlement - Dendra 2km away
- Built on hill 170m above surrounding area
- About halfway between Mycenae & Tiryns, 6km east of Argos
- Surrounded by fortification wall from 1200BC - protects upper hill & lower terraces
- Citadel has 2 gates on East and West sides
- Impressive rectangular building on lower terraces
- Ashy, grey soil suggests site was destroyed c.1200BC, shortly after construction of wall - natural disaster or invasion
- 3rd in importance after Mycenae & Tiryns - Castleden
- Circuit walls enclosed 24,000 sq metres of acropolis and terraces
- East Gate led to Inner Gate, a passageway between two massive walls - the same as Tiryns
- West Gate partly defended by extension of fortification wall to make a bastion -like Lion Gate
- Inside West Gate was a series of workshops built on terraces parallel to circuit wall
- Ordinary household pottery & finely decorated high-status pottery from 1250-1200BC have been found
- Jewellery discovered in citadel
- Large terracotta figure of goddess found - similar to large wheel made idols found at shrines in Mycenae & Tiryns
- Citadel similar to Mycenae and Tiryns - group of palace buildings, shrines, workshops, homes, fortification walls
- Dendra
- Bronze Cuirass
- Dog bones mixed with human bones, Pit in the floor of the tholos tomb near the doorway
- Evidence of human sacrifice - Schofield
- Known examples of human sacrifice at Mycenae & Argos usually involved a skeleton found under the packing stones blocking the door to the burial chamber or lying just above the level of the doorway in soil used to fill the dromos
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- Known examples of human sacrifice at Mycenae & Argos usually involved a skeleton found under the packing stones blocking the door to the burial chamber or lying just above the level of the doorway in soil used to fill the dromos
- Evidence of human sacrifice - Schofield
- Domestic style bronze vessels
- Octopus Cup, 1400BC
- Remains of footstools
- Bronze shoulder protector
- Vapheio
- Vapheio Tholos
- Only tholos tomb that was not robbed - can be used to interpret what other tholoi may have contained
- Thought to have been for a chieftain's burial - included one cist grave in a pit in the chamber floor in the northern part of the tholos
- Chieftain is richly adorned with jewellery and was accompanied by personal items & many weapons
- Chieftain probably ruled nearby settlement of Palaiopyrgi
- 24 seals were symmetrically arranged towards the southern & northern walls
- Western short side of the cist grave included a variety of grave goods
- Weapons: 1 sword, 2 spearheads, 6 knives
- Vessels: 1 silver bowl, 2 alabaster vases, 2 stone vases, 4 cups
- Metals: 10 bronze discs, 1 tube of corrugated bronze sheet, 5 lead discs
- Other: mirror, 2 lamps, 1 incense burner, 80 amethyst beads, 2 seals
- Northern long side of cist grave
- Dagger with gold ornaments on the handle - decorated with scenes of men swimming
- 2 silver cups
- Gold & bronze ring
- 1 shallow silver bowl & 2 small silver objects
- Eastern side of cist grave
- 2 axes
- Knife
- 4 lead discs
- Grave goods can be used to support the variety & extent of trade in the Mycenaean civilisation
- Amber beads from the Baltic
- Imports from Minoan Crete - ring of iron, precious and rare metal at the time
- Specific Grave Goods
- Bronze dagger shaped like a flying fish
- Bronze scales & lead weights
- Gold ring with bezel shaped like a rosette & hoop with cloisonné decoration
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- Vapheio Cups
- Lay at each hand of the chieftain - one gold, one silver
- Have given their name to all cups of the same shape - beaker shaped with a square handle
- Decorated in repousse with scenes of bull hunting & capture - one scene is peaceful, the other is more violent
- Quality of decoration is excellent -probably not everyday drinking ware, but resembled the shape of a drinking vessel
- Thought that the more peaceful cup is of Minoan manufacture and the more violent is Mycenaean
- Vapheio Tholos
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