Clytemnestra: façade, landscape view, 1922

Item

Reference Code: GBR/3437/MCNE/3/1/9/6

Clytemnestra: façade, landscape view

Scope and Contents

From the File:

The Clytemnestra tomb belongs to the third group of tholoi at Mycenae, as categorised by A. J. B. Wace, dating to ca. 1400-1300 BC. A. J. B. Wace and his team cleared the dromos and tholos in 1922. The tomb is evocatively named after Clytemnestra, legendary queen of Mycenae, who conspired to murder her husband Agamemnon, as related in Homer’s Odyssey. A millennium after its construction, the tomb was overbuilt by the Hellenistic theatre.

Dates

Creation: 1922

Creator

From the Fonds: Wace, Alan John Bayard, 1879-1957 (archaeologist) (Person)

Conditions Governing Use

Extent

1 photographic print(s) (1 photograph)

Language of Materials

English

Additional Description

Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements

H. 21.4 x W. 27.6 cm

Bibliography

Holland, L. B., and Wace, A. J. B. (1923). § IX.—The Tholos Tombs. The Annual of the British School at Athens, 25, 283–402, 359, Fig. 77 Wace, A. (1949). Mycenae, an archaeological history and guide. Princeton: Princeton Univ. Press. Illus. 53, b