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Mycenology

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Death mask, known as the Mask of Agamemnon, Grave Circle A, Mycenae, 16th century BC, probably the most famous artifact of Mycenaean Greece.[1]

Mycenology is the study of the Mycenaean Greek language and the culture and institutions recorded in that language. It emerged as a discipline auxiliary to classical philology in 1953, following the deciphering of Minoan Linear B script by Alice Kober, Michael Ventris and John Chadwick.[2][3]

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  1. ^ Burns, Bryan E. (2010). Mycenaean Greece, Mediterranean Commerce and the Formation of Identity (1st ed.). New York: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780521119542. The most famous object from Shaft Grave V, if not all of Mycenaean Greece, is the gold mask popularly known as the "mask of Agamemnon".
  2. ^ Brown, W. Edward (1960-01-01). "An Introduction to Mycenology". The Classical World. 53 (6): 186–191. doi:10.2307/4344324. JSTOR 4344324.
  3. ^ "Cracking the code: the decipherment of Linear B 60 years on". University of Cambridge. 2012-10-13. Retrieved 2017-01-23.