Tag: pylos

Signet Ring with a Badly Drawn Woman with a Staff

Find spot: Pylos, the Mycenaean Griffin Warrior’s tombDate: c. 1450 BCE Clothing depicted: Probably a tiered skirt and heanos, but whomever carved this put more effort into the birds than the central figure.

Signet Ring with Seated Woman and Attendant

Find spot: Pylos, the Mycenaean Griffin Warrior’s tombDate: c. 1450 BCE Clothing depicted: The seated woman wears a skirt that has tiers and wraps around her legs like a kilt, but doesn’t have visible points. Probably a kilt. The attendant wears what appears to be a heanos with a horizontal line halfway up the skirt; this could represent […]