The civilization of the Mycenaean period in Greece
Mycenaean effects
The Mycenaean period in Greece is a distinct mixture of the influences of Median and Cretan Medallion (Menon). The early stage is marked by the malaise found in the tunnel graves. Many discovered ornamental tools and bronze swords show craftsmanship and sculptural excellence in making tools, minerals, and gems.
Pottery
Pottery is considered in this period Mycenaean with attic and superior quality on it various decorations such as natural plant motifs and other variety where the dead were buried and not burned and used the rooms and broken round graves called (Thulus) belonging to the members of the royal family.
Pottery has spread widely in the Mediterranean world, it has a style and decorations with uniform shapes, and a number of these shapes are particularly popular, including wine vessels, bowls with high necks, and a passenger cup.
Among the most important discoveries related to the Mycenaean civilizations are the clay tablets bearing the inscriptions of Linear B, which clearly represent the language of the Mycena that was the development of the Linear A Cretan script.
Bricks
Milk clay has always been the main building material throughout the Middle East and this fact helped us to know about the past and the bricks were made of clay that was molded.
It is possible to use the changes in its shape and size as a historical measure. Fajr, with a flat cross-section on one side and a convex side on the other side, is a special feature of the Warka eras, followed by the importance of flat, convex bricks in the era of the Fajr dynasties in the Mesopotamia.
The bricks were generally dried in the sun, but the proud bricks were used as an outer shell for official buildings and temples and often bear stamped writings. Double bricks appeared for the first time in the Assyrian Armenians and the first example of their use is in the door of Ishtar in Babylon.
Seals
Seals and writing appeared on the clay number together in Mesopotamia at the end of the fourth millennium BC. M and the seals were distinguished as they were in the form of cylinders with a horizontal pattern, so some carvings were engraved on it, and these seals rolled on the soft clay of the number and on the stoppers of the jars, they left layers similar to grooves and the shape and type of stone differed.
The designs of the seals differed as the seals were designed according to time, but their usefulness is for purposes of determining history because it is often found in late contexts and used by later owners with their sculptures or without repetition, i.e. re-use them again.
The writings began to appear on some of the seals since the era of the early dynasties, sometimes representing the name and surname of the owner, and this information is considered very useful in documenting many events through these seals.
Cylindrical seals were used on the plates if on their covers while writing on these seals was used by the writing scribes in Iran, Anatolia, Syria, and Palestine, especially in the second millennium BC. M who was a very great period of activity in the correspondence with a concern to use cylindrical seals
The uses of flat seals also appeared, but the use of the latter type was limited only to northern Mesopotamia, Iran, and Anatolia. These appear early as far back as the Pact of the Fifth Millennium BC. Seals appear in Anatolia in the middle of the sixth millennium BC. M.
The Hittites used flat seals and the flat seals replaced cylindrical in the first millennium BC. M, due to the increased use of parchment writing material compared to the panels, which made it more appropriate than the last.
The golden age of the Mycenaean period
The golden age appeared in the previous periods around 1400-120 BC. This stage of architecture is characterized by the construction of numerical defensive forts and palaces and the defensive walls were built of huge stones that are not consistent but different sizes except that they are well connected and called Cycloplane).
These models remain in Nerniz although their effects are found in other locations such as the Acropolis in Athens in addition to the palace in Mycenae and the halls of the Micron and other halls are decorated with stuccos except for the war scenes that were not frankly sculptures and were added from time to time.
Some relics that belong to architectural decorations are still common, but most of the palaces were built from unpolished pieces of stone and covered with mortar, and the commonly used materials included golden jewels and ivory sculptures in many forms and the weapons and shields that included the war helmets, chest shields, swords, and spears were made of bronze.