05/08/2026
✴️ Una que inspira a los mejores artistas ✍️
✅ Nuestra reconstrucción del escudo micénico de ocho que ha servido de inspiración en el último trabajo del ilustrador y artista digital JFoliveras, digital painting. En éste, un lawageta micénico, reconstruido con gran detalle, lo porta como parte de su panoplia.
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MYCENAEAN “LAWAGETA” (leader of the king’s army). The Mycenaean civilization was the last phase of the Bronze Age in mainland Greece, lasting from 1750 BC to 1050 BC approximately. Mycenaean art and material culture was heavily influenced by the Minoan civilization of Crete (3100-1100 BC), which the Mycenaeans eventually conquered, although both civilizations were unique in many aspects. Unlike the Pre-Indo-European-speaking, relatively peaceful and more matriarchal Minoans, the Mycenaeans were a war-like, Greek-speaking patriarchal society, with many independent centres of power. Most Mycenaean warriors were lightly equipped, often wearing only a tunic (unlike Minoan men, that were bare-chested and wore a kilt) and a helmet made of boar tusks or bronze. But members of the early Mycenaean elite wore extremely bulky and heavy bell-shaped armours with massive pauldrons that encircled the whole torso, and high neck guards that practically left only the eyes visible. Although later versions of these armours were much lighter and smaller, the most complete one was found at Dendra, which is the one used as reference here. Mycenaean helmets could have horns, as represented in the famous Vase of the Warriors, and Homer describes Achilles wearing a helmet with four horns in the Iliad. Surviving examples of horns that may have been attached to a helmet were also found at Dendra. This warrior also carries an “epsilon” axe, a type of axe used all over the Middle East and Egypt, and a figure-of-eight shield used by Minoans and Mycenaeans.
The Mycenaean centres of power were eventually destroyed during the Late Bronze Age Collapse, presumably by the obscure pirates known as the “Sea Peoples”, that brought the Late Bronze Age civilizations of the eastern Mediterranean to an end (all except Egypt). The Iron Age in Greece began with a period known as the “Greek Dark Ages”, at the end of which Homer wrote the Iliad, inspired by a heroic Mycenaean past that would become eternally associated with the mythical Trojan War.
Some parts of this warrior have been inspired by the armours and weapons by Dimitrios Katsikis, and the shield is a replica by La Casa del Recreador.
HQ + close-ups: https://www.artstation.com/artwork/Xgwanl
