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Date : approx. between 620 and 600 B.C.
Material : Bronze
Acquisition : Gift of Norbert Schimmel Trust (1989)
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Item 31 on 197
Greek Antiquities
Weapons
Vitrine : V02
Area related
Ile de Crète (Greece)
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The three mitrai in this case were found in Crete with the two helmets exhibited above. They were suspended from belts to protect the lower abdomen. The third mitra is decorated with two sphinxes. Such heraldic representations of fantastic animal were derived from Near Eastern prototypes.
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