Wooden Hexagonal Pyxis (16th Century BC), decorated with repousse gold plates. Found from Grave Circle A, Grave V, Mycenae, Greece.
Gold plates depict lions chasing deer and an antelope among palm-trees, spirals and bovine heads. Latter, with their exaggerated eyes, dominate composition. This is unique find both because of wood, which rarely survives from Mycenaean period, but also because of distinctive character of scene depicted.
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