Inv. 11762/28: Fragment of a bronze shield with embossed decoration, 8th c. BCE.
Inv. 11762/1: Fragment of a bronze shield with embossed sphinxes and lions. Probably Cretan (with Assyrian influences), mid 8th c. BCE.
From the Idaean Cave, Crete.
National Archaeological Museum
Athens, Greece
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Inv. 11790/1: Bronze bowl with central boss and tongue pattern, showing Assyrian influence. Late 8th c. BCE.
Inv. 11793α: Miniature Phoenician glass amphora. 4th-3rd c. BCE.
From the Idaean Cave, Crete.
National Archaeological Museum
Athens, Greece
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Inv. 11764/2: Part of a bronze shield embossed with rosette, guilloche and bovine patterns.
Cretan, 8th c. BCE.
Inv. 11762/29α: Part of a bronze shield with embossed floral decoration, 8th c. BCE.
From the Idaean Cave, Crete.
National Archaeological Museum
Athens, Greece
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Inv. 11790/8: Small one-handled bronze bowl, probably early 7th c. BCE.
Inv. 18231: Bronze ladle.
Inv. 18228: Bronze bowl with lotus flowers on handles, of Cypriot type. Cretan, first half of the 8th c. BCE.
From the Idaean Cave, Crete.
National Archaeological Museum
Athens, Greece
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Cretan Late Geometric-Early Archaic period, ca. 730-680 BCE
Found in the Idaean Cave (see on Pleiades)
The relief decoration is interpreted as representing the myth of Zeus and the Kouretes (Curetes, Korybantes), and reflects stylistic trends of contemporary Assyrian artistic production; it may have been produced locally or imported.
In the collection of, and photographed on display in, the Archaeological Museum of Herakleion, Iraklio, Crete, Greece
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