What Was the Purpose of Mycenaean Death Masks

Funerary masks were frequently used to cover the face of the deceased. Generally their purpose was to represent the features of the deceased, both to honour them and to establish a relationship through the mask with the spirit world.

What was the purpose of the death mask of Agamemnon?

The mask was designed to be a funeral mask covered in gold. The faces of the men are not all covered with masks. That they are men and warriors is suggested by the presence of weapons in their graves. The quantities of gold and carefully worked artefacts indicate honor, wealth and status.

In what feature of Mycenae were the death masks found?

The death masks of Mycenae are a series of golden funerary masks found on buried bodies within a burial site titled Grave Circle A, located within the ancient Greek city of Mycenae.