Because of this it is assumed that he was a king (Mycenaean wanax, Linear B wa-na-ka), and ruled over Pylos.
Classical Greek mythology suggests that ancient Kolkhs (Colchis people) had practiced somewhat highly developed medicine that must have impressed the Mycenaean Greek travelers at the time.
Helladic period, the material-cultural period in the eastern Mediterranean in the Bronze Age associated with the Mycenaean Greeks
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Mycenaean Greece, the Greek-speaking regions of the Aegean Sea as of the Late Bronze Age
Just before the Second World War, Frantz was charged with the task to photograph in two days more than six hundred tablets of Linear B, discovered by the famous American archaeologists Carl Blegen in the Mycenaean palace of Pylos.
There have been finds of sub-Mycenaean votive figures and of votive figures from the Geometric period, but with a gap in continuity between them: "it is clear that a radical reinterpretation has taken place" Walter Burkert has observed, instancing many examples of this break in cult during the "Greek Dark Ages", including Amyklai (1985, p 49).
In the last years, she investigated the Mycenaean-built Acropolis Magoula near Galatas next to the island of Poros.
He is a specialist in Mycenaean archaeology and philology and holds the chair of philology at the University of Naples Federico II.
Her specialty was Mycenaean imported pottery and imitations found in Egypt and Nubia, as well as Egyptian-Mycenaean interconnections in the New Kingdom and their implications for chronology.
In 1980 he obtained his M.A. from Bryn Mawr College, writing on Mycenaean shrines under Machteld Mellink, and Ph.D. in 1985, writing on Roman sculpture under Brunilde Ridgway.
The same phenomenon, part of ritual Mycenaean feasting, occurs in the contemporary Pylos tablets.