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Pylos of Nestor: A Mycenaean Kingdom Revealed
214 objects from Messenia trace a Mycenaean power centre and the Palace of Nestor at Ano Englianos, with excavation diaries and archival photographs.
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On a gold-capped agate seal, two warriors fight over the body of a third, cut in sub-millimetre detail. It came from the Griffin Warrior's unlooted shaft grave near the Palace of Nestor.
The show brings 214 objects from Messenia and sets them beside the museum's permanent Mycenaean rooms. You move from princes' tholos tombs to the rulers of Ano Englianos, then the palace, its Throne Room and its Linear B archive. Excavation diaries run alongside, and a "laboratory" follows a find from trench to analysis. The tablet that confirmed Linear B was Greek is a palace accounts record, so Greek paperwork beats Greek poetry by centuries.
This is the reworked final stop after Kalamata and the Getty, and the museum's deputy director calls it an "excavation diary": come for the digging as much as the gold. It runs to 31 January 2027. Until 15 November it opens 08:00 to 20:00, then 08:30 to 15:30; Tuesdays are 13:00 to 20:00. Free entry first and third Sundays, November to March.
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A gold-capped agate seal shows two warriors fighting over a third, cut in sub-millimetre detail. Nearby are the only known Mycenaean crown and the tablet that confirmed Linear B was Greek, with the excavation diaries alongside.
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The combat agate
Look for two warriors dueling over the body of a third, engraved on a gold-capped agate seal from the Griffin Warrior's grave.
The only Mycenaean crown
A bronze band topped by a gold star-flower, found at Myrsinochori and the only crown known from the Mycenaean world.
The Tripod Tablet
A clay tablet in Linear B, the one that confirmed Michael Ventris's decipherment of the script.
The tripod rhyton
A clay vessel on three legs with a bull and two deer modelled in the round on it.
The leopard-hunt dagger
A bronze dagger whose gold-plated hilt shows a leopard hunting, made in the 'painting on metal' technique.
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