Bronze Armor
Bronze cuirass with incised decoration - (please enlarge the image for details).
In the bottom zone there is a procession: it may represent the entrance of Apollo to Olympus, in which case the bearded figure would be Zeus. Apollo is shown holding his lyre. There are two gods behind Zeus and two female figures behind Apollo who are Muses or Hyperborean Maidens. It clearly belonged to a distinguished warrior.
On the shoulders are figures of animals: two lions and two bulls. Between them placed heraldically, two
Sphinxes and two panthers.
Bronze armor
2nd half of 7th c. BC.
From an lonian or Peloponnesian (Corinthian?) workshop.
Olympia, Archaeological Museum
Bronze Armor
Bronze cuirass with incised decoration - (please enlarge the image for details).
In the bottom zone there is a procession: it may represent the entrance of Apollo to Olympus, in which case the bearded figure would be Zeus. Apollo is shown holding his lyre. There are two gods behind Zeus and two female figures behind Apollo who are Muses or Hyperborean Maidens. It clearly belonged to a distinguished warrior.
On the shoulders are figures of animals: two lions and two bulls. Between them placed heraldically, two
Sphinxes and two panthers.
Bronze armor
2nd half of 7th c. BC.
From an lonian or Peloponnesian (Corinthian?) workshop.
Olympia, Archaeological Museum