Lions Gate Mycena

Lions Gate Mycena
The Lions Gate is a massive and construction, standing 3m wide and 3m high at the threshold. The opening was closed by a double door mortised to a vertical beam that acted as a pivot around which the door revolved. The gate itself consists of two great monoliths capped with a huge lintel. Above the lintel, the masonry courses form a corbelled arch , leaving an opening that lightens the weight carried by the lintel. The heads of the animals were fashioned separately and are missing. The Lion Gate is the sole surviving monumental piece of Mycenaean sculpture, as well as the largest sculpture in the prehistoric Aegean. It is the only monument of Bronze Age Greece to bear an iconographic motif. Amazing experience if you know more about history.