#INCREDIBLE though. a single piece of rock crystal!!! and so old! i'm trying to figure out how anyone would make this from crystal
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the-puffinry · 1 year ago
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rock crystal duck/swan 1600BC Mycenae
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little bit in love with the design of this vessel in the shape of a duck or swan, made from a single piece of rock crystal(!).
Mycenae, 16 century BCE.
National Archaeological Museum of Athens, N 8638.
#sources were divided on duck or swan. museum site says duck. very long neck for a duck tho#INCREDIBLE though. a single piece of rock crystal!!! and so old! i'm trying to figure out how anyone would make this from crystal#ducks#mycenae#ancient greece#Mycenae
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