When Carl Blegen excavated at Troy in the 1930s he found some sherds which his experts recognized as the remains of pots imported from the Mycenaeans, across the Aegean Sea to the west. These two pieces were among them:

The Mycenaean imports were found in a Troy VI context, and this was important, because it showed that contact existed between the two key players in the legend and Homer's Iliad: the Trojans and the Greeks (lead by Agamemnon, the king of Mycenae).

The expert on Mycenaean pottery of the current excavation, Penelope Mountjoy, recognized that these sherds, along with a third, belonged to a picture of two figures in a two-horse chariot. We found a pot in the British Museum which was an almost perfect match for our Troy sherds. It dates to the Mycenaean period (Late Bronze Age) and was found at a place far from Mycenae: the island of Cyprus.

Our graphic artist illustrated how the Troy sherds might have belonged to a similar picture.