Object from Athens NAM
Ca 1350 BC
“The Secret of the Treasury of Atreus”
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Graphic reconstruction of the stone decoration of the façade indicating the suggested position of the fragments of the National Archaeological Museum (study by Maria Kontaki).
The Treasury of Atreus after the excavations by Lord Elgin (Gell W., The Itinerary of Greece: With a commentary on Pausanias and Strabo and an account of the monuments of antiquity at present existing in that country, London 1810, pl. 5).
Sketch of the façade of the Treasury of Atreus from the excavation journal of Panagiotis Stamatakis, 1878 (Historical Archive of the National Archaeological Museum).
Mycenae 1876: photographic detail with the figure attributed to Panagiotis Stamatakis.
Part of an epistyle of red marble (rosso antico), with relief decoration and later graffiti. From the elaborate façade of the Treasury of Atreus. Ca 1350 BC, inv. no NAM P 1481. (Photographic Archive of the National Archaeological Museum).
Part of an epistyle of red marble (rosso antico), with relief decoration and later graffiti. From the elaborate façade of the Treasury of Atreus. Ca 1350 BC, inv. no NAM P 1481. (Drawing by Yannis Nakas).
Graphic reconstruction of the stone decoration of the façade indicating the suggested position of the fragments of the National Archaeological Museum (study by Maria Kontaki).
The Treasury of Atreus after the excavations by Lord Elgin (Gell W., The Itinerary of Greece: With a commentary on Pausanias and Strabo and an account of the monuments of antiquity at present existing in that country, London 1810, pl. 5).
Sketch of the façade of the Treasury of Atreus from the excavation journal of Panagiotis Stamatakis, 1878 (Historical Archive of the National Archaeological Museum).
Mycenae 1876: photographic detail with the figure attributed to Panagiotis Stamatakis.
Part of an epistyle of red marble (rosso antico), with relief decoration and later graffiti. From the elaborate façade of the Treasury of Atreus. Ca 1350 BC, inv. no NA
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Graphic reconstruction of the stone decoration of the façade indicating the suggested position of the fragments of the National Archaeological Museum (study by Maria Kontaki).
The Treasury of Atreus after the excavations by Lord Elgin (Gell W., The Itinerary of Greece: With a commentary on Pausanias and Strabo and an account of the monuments of antiquity at present existing in that country, London 1810, pl. 5).
Sketch of the façade of the Treasury of Atreus from the excavation journal of Panagiotis Stamatakis, 1878 (Historical Archive of the National Archaeological Museum).
Mycenae 1876: photographic detail with the figure attributed to Panagiotis Stamatakis.
Part of an epistyle of red marble (rosso antico), with relief decoration and later graffiti. From the elaborate façade of the Treasury of Atreus. Ca 1350 BC, inv. no NAM P 1481. (Photographic Archive of the National Archaeological Museum).
Part of an epistyle of red marble (rosso antico), with relief decoration and later graffiti. From the elaborate façade of the Treasury of Atreus. Ca 1350 BC, inv. no NAM P 1481. (Drawing by Yannis Nakas).
Graphic reconstruction of the stone decoration of the façade indicating the suggested position of the fragments of the National Archaeological Museum (study by Maria Kontaki).
The Treasury of Atreus after the excavations by Lord Elgin (Gell W., The Itinerary of Greece: With a commentary on Pausanias and Strabo and an account of the monuments of antiquity at present existing in that country, London 1810, pl. 5).
Sketch of the façade of the Treasury of Atreus from the excavation journal of Panagiotis Stamatakis, 1878 (Historical Archive of the National Archaeological Museum).
Mycenae 1876: photographic detail with the figure attributed to Panagiotis Stamatakis.
Part of an epistyle of red marble (rosso antico), with relief decoration and later graffiti. From the elaborate façade of the Treasury of Atreus. Ca 1350 BC, inv. no NA
Images courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art (CC0)