The "Face of Agamemnon"

by Oliver Dickinson

Hesperia, Volume 74, Issue 3
Page(s): 299-308
Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/25067959
Year: 2005
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ABSTRACT:

In this article, the author responds to the claim put forward by William M. Calder III in 1999 that the most famous burial mask from the Shaft Graves at Mycenae--that generally believed to be the one that Schliemann took for the “face of Agamemnon”--is a forgery, planted by Schliemann himself. From an analysis of the surviving documentation, it is argued that this theory is untenable, particularly since Schliemann did not originally associate this mask with Agamemnon.