Fresco – Hunting Scene

Find spot: Palace of Nestor, Pylos, Greece
Date: 
Clothing depicted: short-sleeved tunic, belt, gaiters/greaves
Museum link: Archaeological Museum of Chora (in Messenia, Greece) 16 H 43

Fragment of wall fresco showing a hunter and stag at the Palace of Nestor. This fragment was part of the upper floor having fallen into room 43. On display at the Chora museum.

Interesting articles:
“Single Greaves in the Late Helladic Period” https://www.jstor.org/stable/505895
“Misinterpreting the evidence? A fragment of a fresco from Pylos” https://www.ancientworldmagazine.com/articles/misinterpreting-evidence-fragment-fresco-pylos/

Wikimedia: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hunter_and_stag_wall_fresco_fragment.jpg

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