There have been many discoveries of gold grave goods at Grave Circles A and B in the Bronze Age city of Mycenae. Gold has always been used to show status amongst the deceased when used in grave goods.
Grave Circle A, Mycenae
Several Mycenaean gold funerary masks in the National Archaeological Museum, Athens
Grave circle B 3
Minoan art
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Minoan art is the art produced by the Bronze Age Aegean Minoan civilization from about 3000 to 1100 BC, though the most extensive and finest survivals come from approximately 2300 to 1400 BC. It forms
Kamares ware jug, AMH, MM IA (c. 2000 BC).
The "Battle of the Glen" gold ring shows the Minoan landscape convention, with rocks above and below. Buried at Mycenae.
Marine Style vase from Palaikastro, AMH.
Octopus on an anchor or weight in porphyry, LM, AMH