Early Mycenaean Greece

Middle Helladic

to

Late Helladic IIA

Chronology

Date (BCE) Crete Mainland

2000 Protopalatial Middle Helladic

1700 Neopalatial Grave Circle B

1600 LM IA Late Helladic I(Grave Circle A)

1500 LM IB Late Helladic IITholos tombs, Vapheio tomb

1450 Destruction of Minoan sites Late Helladic IIB

LM II

1400 LM IIIA Late Helladic IIIA

1300 LM IIIB Late Helladic IIIB

1200 LM IIIC Late Helladic IIIC

(Mycenaean palaces)

Acme of Mycenaean culture

Middle Helladic Pottery from Lerna

Argive Minyan kantharos (Lerna V)

Matt-painted kantharos (Lerna V)

Matt-painted carinated bowl (Lerna V)

Light-on-dark Matt-painted jar (Lerna V)

Middle Helladic “Minoanizing” pottery (Lerna V)

Imported MM IA “egg cup”Polychrome-painted Oatmeal

Minoanizing jar

Polychrome-painted Minoanizing teacup Polychrome-painted Minoanizing

two-handled teacup.

Lerna - MH Architecture: Apsidal Long House with associated yard and storeroom

Lerna - MH Architecture - Storeroom with pithoi in situ

Apsidal longhouse at Ayios Stephanos

Site distribution in the Peloponnesos

Plans and diagrams of the main Mycenaean burial types

Chamber tomb

Tholos tomb

Boar’s tusk and the boar’s tusk helmet

Distribution of Aeginetan Ware pottery in the Bronze Age

Tumulus at Vrana

Map of Messenia (Mycenaean “kingdom” of Pylos)

Grave stelae from Mycenae showing chariot scenes

Bronze daggers with gold and silver inlay from Mycenae

Bronze dagger (detail) of lion hunt scene

Shaft grave at Ayios Stephanos (after removal of roofing slab)

Small tholos tomb in the Messenian region (near Pylos)

Entrance to a tholos tomb at Mycenae (“Treasury of Atreus”)

MH Architecture - Plans of buildings at Asine and settlement at Malthi

Plan of the Menelaion, Mansion I, LH IIB

The Mycenaean megaron

(palatial architecture)

Miniature fresco from Room 5, West House, Akrotiri (detail)