THE PREHISTORIC COLLECTION

Bronze dagger. Both sides of the dagger are covered with gold and silver decoration inlaid in bands of niello. On one side of the blade a lion hunting scene is depicted and on the other, lions seizing antelopes. It was found in Shaft Grave IV of Grave Circle A at Mycenae. Dated to the second half of the 16th century B.C. Inv. no. 394.