vaphio

Updated: May 9, 2025

Meanwhile at Vaphio, Enkomi, Knossos, and elsewhere the art is often excellent. In one essential point the poet describes a custom without parallel among the discovered relics of the Mycenaean age namely, the disposal of the bodies of the dead.

Andrew Lang - Homer and His Age

From right to left, walking in procession, we see the Minoan gift-bearers from Crete, carrying in their hands and on their shoulders great cups of gold and silver, in shape like the famous gold cups found at Vaphio in Lakonia, but much larger, also a ewer of gold and silver exactly like one of bronze discovered by Mr.

H. R. (Harry Reginald) Hall - History of Egypt, Chaldea, Syria, Babylonia, and Assyria in the Light of Recent Discovery