Puzzle from the Greek Dark Ages

[Pantagathus]

Lately I

[Kosmo]

Very nice connection between an arheological find a myth.

 

What puzzles me the most it's the use of antiquity goods

"Heirloom pieces from the East amongst the burial goods (12th Century BC Cypriot Bronze & ~20th Century BC Old Babylonian Gorget)"

 

A babylonian artifact 1000 years old at the moment of last use!!

[Pantagathus]

Very nice connection between an arheological find a myth.

Thanks Kosmo

 

What puzzles me the most it's the use of antiquity goods A babylonian artifact 1000 years old at the moment of last use!!

It really poses so many questions! Out of over 200 documented burial sites from the Greek Dark ages, absolutely none are like this one. There is no precident whatsoever.

 

I'm really glad that the site left no uncertainty as to the context of the goods and that excavation team properly identified these particular items as heirlooms and didn't try to explain them away as coincidences or copies of older motifs.

 

These were obviously very special people who were more than likely very connected with the non-Greek world (or the Mycenaean past) when the great majority of their Greek contemporaries were not at all.