Assemblage from a Warrior's Burial

6th century BCE (Archaic)

15.2 cm 17.2 cm 3.5 cm

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This mask with a separate nose piece, band, ring, and plaque were found, with other bronze armor (for example Walters 54.2456), in a tomb in northern Greece. The red discoloration of the gold suggests that the objects adorned a body that was cremated on a funeral pyre and then...

Artifact

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79192
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[Tomb in Chalkidike, Northern Greece]; Hesperia Art, Philadelphia, [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1964, by purchase.
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en
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7
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sourceUrl https://purl.thewalters.org/art/VO.106 (57.1944, 57.1945, 57.1946, 57.1947)