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Fresco from Pylos palace depicting two warriors; one warrior rides his chariot with fourspoked wheels (13th century BC).
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Although no calendar is mentioned in the Homeric epics, there are references to years and months, which suggest the existence of an early lunisolar calendar. This hypothesis is further supported by the total number of the cattle of the Sun in Homer's Odyssey, which seems to be a poetic reference to the most ancient Greek calendar, namely the period...
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... The My- cenaean chariot is depicted on many Knossos tablets, as for example KN Sc230 in the Herakleion Museum (Figure 3), or it is denoted by the symbol ⊕. It is also frequently seen on other artistic objects, as for example on the Pylos fresco depicting two warriors -one of them riding in a chariot (Figure 4), and numerous scenes on pottery, like the sarcophagus from Episkopi (Hierapetra, Ar- chaeological Collection) ( Figure 5). The chariot consists of a light body, possibly with a fixed axle on which are mounted the two four-spoked wheels, like that on another golden ring from the grave circle A at Mycenae (Athens, Archaeological Museum) ( Figure 6). ...
