The Lion Gate of Mycenae
The only surviving monumental Mycenaean sculpture
Around 1250 BC the main entrance to the citadel of Mycenae was crowned with a relief of two lionesses flanking a column. It is the only monumental sculpture of Mycenaean Greece to survive; Pausanias saw and described the gate as early as the 2nd century AD.
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Meanwhile around the world (±25 years)
Middle East
- 1274 BC Battle of Kadesh — 24 years earlier
- c. 1259 BC Egyptian–Hittite peace treaty — 9 years earlier
Africa
- c. 1264 BC Temples of Abu Simbel — 14 years earlier
Asia
- c. 1250 BC Oracle bone inscriptions — same year
Alive at the time
- Ramesses II (aged 53)