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The Lord Of The Gold Rings
April 10, 2025 @ 5:00 am – 7:00 pm
Jack L. Davis and Sharon R. Stocker, of the University of Cincinnati, will speak about their excavations of the Tomb of the Griffin Warrior from Pylos in the presentation “The Lord of the Gold Rings: The Griffin Warrior of Pylos.” Presentation starts at 6 p.m. in Witherspoon Hall; cash bar opens at 5 in the Fountain Court.
A partnership program with the Archaeological Institute of America (AIA) Lincoln/Omaha Society. This is a free program, with no pre-registration required.
Jack L. Davis and Sharon R. Stocker, of the University of Cincinnati, will speak about their excavations of the Tomb of the Griffin Warrior from Pylos (www.griffinwarrior.org) as part of the AIA’s National Lecture Program. Since 2015, excavations at the Palace of Nestor in southwestern Greece have uncovered significant components of the ancient cemeteries associated with the Mycenaean town. Most fascinating among these is the grave of the Griffin Warrior, in which a single man was buried at about 1450 BCE in a small, unprepossessing, stone-lined shaft, but accompanied by several thousand artifacts of gold, silver, bronze, ivory, and semi-precious gems. The grave of the Griffin Warrior from Pylos, together with two previously unknown, monumental Mycenaean beehive tombs found nearby in 2018, promises to redefine scholarly views on the emergence of the Mycenaean Civilization and the formation of the earliest states in Europe.
This event is sponsored by the Archaeological Institute of America, the Department of Fine and Performing Arts at Creighton University, Creighton University Committee on Lectures, Films, and Concerts, the Department of Art History and the Ancient Mediterranean Studies Program at University of Nebraska at Omaha, and by the University of Nebraska-Lincoln Hixson-Lied Visiting Artist & Scholar Lecture Series.
