FAROS Textiles Database

The FAROS Textiles Database is a digital catalogue of the textile remains recovered from the Grave Circles of Mycenae and studied within the framework of the research project FAROS – The Fabric of Kings: Funerary Textile Remains from Mycenae and the Early Mycenaean Textile Production.

The FAROS project was hosted by the University of the Peloponnese and funded by the Hellenic Foundation for Research and Innovation (H.F.R.I.), with a research period spanning 2023–2025.

This database brings together, for the first time, the full corpus of textiles associated with the Mycenae Grave Circles in a structured and searchable digital environment. Each textile is recorded as an individual entry, documenting its technical characteristics, material, weave, and archaeological context, along with a descriptive account highlighting any notable or exceptional features observed during the study.

The catalogue is built on a relational database that allows users to explore the material through multiple search fields, including Grave Circle, Tomb, Material, and Weave, facilitating comparative research and focused queries across the assemblage.

The FAROS Textiles Database is intended as a research tool for scholars and students of Aegean archaeology, textile archaeology, and ancient technologies, as well as a point of reference for the broader study of early Mycenaean funerary practices and textile production.

For further information on the FAROS project, please see the article “Unravelling Mycenaean Threads: The FAROS Project”.

See the FAROS Textiles Database here

The research project was supported by the Hellenic Foundation for Research and Innovation (H.F.R.I.) under the “3rd Call for H.F.R.I. Research Projects to support Post-Doctoral Researchers” (Project Number: 7354).