Daggers found in shaft graves during the bronze age

A decorative dagger was found in the end of the Bronze Age in the tomb of Mycenae that occurred between 1550 BC and 1500 BC. It is manufactured by Cretans for the mainland market. These daggers were made on the island of Crete, but they were not found there. Other places that discovered daggers like Thera, Vapheio, Pylos, Argire Heraeum. This indicates that there is a transaction between all these places during the dagger's manufacturing period. Most capital cities are in Mycena's tomb circle A.

FIG. 3a. A bronze dagger is set in a lion hunting scene from Mycenae's tombs of his later years. Figure 3b. A plan and cross section of the tomb of Mycenae and Torros. Figure 3c Internal dome of the grave's tomb of the Mycene (the so-called Atreus treasure). Figure 3d A gold mask in Mycenae's early grave cemetery. In Mycenae, the tombs of these "shafts" - deep rectangular pit, dead body - covered a grave over a century from 1600 to 1500 years ago. Early tombs produced several bronze weapons (swords, dagger, spears and knives) and the number of local potteries, but it was a small amount of gold and jewelry. In contrast, the posterior grave containing the body of three men and two women owns hundreds of expensive items including weapons (43 swords, etc.) and gold jewelry that adorns the female body It is.

Some bronze dagger blades are fitted with unusual images and patterns of other metals, mainly gold and silver, and gold (mixed gold and silver) of various shades. Black niels are used as a background for these pictures, or to add details of cuts. The most famous Shaft Grave dagger shows a man with a bow, a spear, a giant body shield to follow the pride of the lion; like a cat chasing a wild bird in the papyrus next to Silver Creek The craftsmanship and style of painting depicted on the front of the animal Mycene are new, but this "metal painting" technology seems to come from Syria. Other daggers and metal cups of this mosaic pattern were found in the mainland, but in Crete no dagger or metal cup was found. However, many of the treasures of Shaft Graves are imported from Crete.