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Pylos Combat Agate
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The Pylos Combat Agate is a Minoan sealstone of the Mycenaean era, likely manufactured in Late Minoan Crete. It depicts two warriors engaged in hand-to-hand combat, with a third warrior lying on the ground.[1][2] It was discovered in the Griffin Warrior Tomb near the Palace of Nestor in Pylos and is dated to about 1450 BCE.[3] The seal has come to be known as Pylos Combat Agate.[2]
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![]() The Pylos Combat Agate. Photograph by Jeff Vanderpool, Courtesy of the Department of Classics, University of Cincinnati | |
Material | Agate |
Size | 3.4 centimetres (1.3 in) |
Created | 1450 BCE |
Period/culture | Aegean Bronze Age |
Discovered | 2017 Pylos, Greece 37°01′41.6″N 21°41′45.4″E |
Discovered by | Sharon Stocker and Jack L. Davis |
Place | Pýlos, Greece |
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The seal is noted for its exceptionally fine and elaborate engraving, and considered "the single best work of glyptic art ever recovered from the Aegean Bronze Age".[2] The quality of the work anticipates later developments as far ahead as the Classical era of a millennium later.