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Original exhibit of the National Archaeological Museum in Athens
The gold mask of Agamemnon, dubbed by Schliemann as such, is the death mask of a Mycenaean prince around 1,500 BC.
The German archaeologist Heinrich Schliemann found this burial object during excavations in Mycenae near the "Lion Gate" in 1876, and his assumption that it was the legendary king Agamemnon, the leader of the Greeks in the war against the small Asian city of Troy, immortalized by Homer in his epics, turned out to be a fallacy in recent research methods.
Agamemnon gold plate mask, original exhibited at the National Archaeological Museum in Athens, inventory no. 624,27 cm high, 25 cm wide.
Replica reduction bronze, only mask 16,3 cm wide and 15,8 cm high.
This product was added to our catalog on Wednesday, February 5, 2014.