An extraordinary artefact recently discovered among a cache of burial treasures at the 3,500 year old tomb of a Bronze Age warrior in southwest Greece: the Pylos Combat Agate – a carved sealstone less than 4cm wide featuring an astonishingly detailed depiction of two fighters clashing over the slain body of a third.
Professor Jack Davis of the University of Cincinnati (whose researchers originally unearthed the tomb) sez of it:
What is fascinating is that the representation of the human body is at a level of detail and musculature that one doesn’t find again until the classical period of Greek art 1,000 years later.
MORE: Unearthing A Masterpiece (UC magazine)
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Spectacular.
It really is a gorgeous piece of art.
It’s 3.6cm wide!!!!
They probably a pill for that Papi.
OOf.
That’s unreal.
What everyone said.
Damned aliens, messing with us again.
Fabulous.
How are we to know any of it is real, having looked at the photos offered? Nonetheless, I salute the artist wherever and WHENEVER he/she produced this fine work of great beauty.