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| Keywords: Greek - Assemblage from a Warrior's Burial - Walters 571944, 571945, 571946, 571947 - Top.jpg This mask with a separate nose piece band ring and plaque were found with other bronze armor for example Walters 54 2456 in a tomb in northern Greece The red discoloration of the gold suggests that the objects adorned a body that was cremated on a funeral pyre and then reassembled and placed in a secondary burial The mask is slit along the ridge and bottom of the nose; the five pairs of holes along the opening allow for the attachment of the separate nosepiece The band is stamped with a double guilloche pattern The plaque is diamond in shape stamped with patterns including a rosette at the center The ring with a convex top is crudely made typical of adornments that were fashioned solely for burial century 6 BC Archaic folded sheet gold mask cm 17 2 15 15 3 5 ; nose cm 9 62 3 9 2 5 ; band cm 29 3 2 5 ; plaque cm 16 2 6 1 ; ring cm 3 2 8 0 6 accession number 57 1944 57 1945 57 1946 57 1947 79192 Tomb in Chalkidike Northern Greece Hesperia Art Philadelphia Walters Art Museum 1964 by purchase Museum purchase with funds provided by the S A P Fund 1964 place of origin Thrace in present-day Chalcidice Greece Walters Art Museum license Ancient Greek art in the Walters Art Museum Art from Greece Media contributed by the Walters Art Museum needs category review | ||||
