Find spot: “House of the High Priest” Southwest Building at the Acropolis of Mycenae, Cult Centre
Date: 13th century BCE
Clothing depicted: heanos, bolero jacket, wrap skirt, bracelets, necklace, head wrap, belt
Museum link: National Archaeological Museum of Athens https://www.namuseum.gr/en/collection/syllogi-mykinaikon-archaiotiton/
What I see:
She has two right hands. In “New Reconstruction of the “Mykenaia” and a Seated Woman from Mycenae” the author, Bernice R. Jones, notes, “… it is not unusual for figures in Minoan and Mycenaean art to be portrayed with two right hand…”. So okay. I will not plan to swap out my left hand for a right hand.. but I wanted to note that.
Long black hair. Ears exposed, lock of hair falling in front of the ears. No earrings.
Holding a necklace with in her right hand (right arm).
She wears two or three necklaces. Two of them are very similar to the one she’s holding in her hand. The necklaces are under her heanos and jacket.
Her hair is tied up with a red/white (possibly also black on the outer edges and between the red/white areas) narrow hair band.
Each arm has two beaded bracelets (or one bracelet with beads on the edge) and some kind of red cord near to her hand (another bracelet? something else?)
She wears a saffron-gold v-necked heanos with wide trim along the center v-neck front opening which is white with a red strip down the middle (possibly black outlines along the other edge of the trim and between the red/white areas). Her heanos covers her breasts. It is possible the dots in the image indicate her nipples suggesting either that the fabric is very thin or she is very cold.
She wears a saffron-gold bolero jacket with wide red trim with white stripe down the middle (probably think black stripes between the red/white and within the white).
Her lower skirt is all reconstruction so MMV.
Sources
“New Reconstructions of the ‘Mykenaia’ and a Seated Woman from Mycenae” https://ajaonline.org/article/21/
“Costume in the Prehistoric Aegean” https://www.archaeology.wiki/blog/2018/07/02/costume-in-the-prehistoric-aegean/
