Early Greece

Carved architectural fragments can be harder to read than a complete statue. Begin with their edges, repeated patterns and changes in depth. They were made to belong to a building, where one piece joined the next. Room 6, labelled Early Greece, includes fragments from the building traditionally called the Treasury of Atreus at Mycenae. The surviving carved stone lets you examine decoration once fixed into a much larger architectural setting. A gallery fragment and an intact ancient doorway offer different views of the same craft. Keep the gallery names in mind when choosing where to continue. Early Greece uses the number 6, while Assyrian sculpture and the Balawat Gates are associated with 6a and 6b. The names help distinguish material from different cultures within this part of the Museum.