Pylos Combat Agate
Ágata del combate de Pilos
- Date
- 2015 · confidence high
- Place
- Pylos, Western Greece, Greece
- Credited to
- Sharon Stocker
- Field
- Cosmos & Earth
What was discovered
A Minoan agate sealstone depicting a combat scene between warriors, engraved with extraordinary detail, found in 2015 in the Griffin Warrior Tomb near the Palace of Nestor at Pylos by archaeologist Sharon Stocker.
What it led to
- forced a revision of the chronology of Minoan artistic refinement
- considered the finest work of glyptic art recovered from the Aegean Bronze Age
- provided new data on artistic exchange between Crete and the Peloponnese