 The boar 's tusk helmet was the most identifiable piece of Mycenaean armor being in use from the beginning to the collapse of Mycenaean culture . It is also known from several depictions in contemporary art in Greece and the Mediterranean . A representative piece of Mycenaean armor is the Dendra panoply ( c . 1450 – 1400 BC ) which consisted of a cuirass of a complete set of armor made up of several elements of bronze . In general , most features of the later hoplite panoply of classical Greek antiquity , were already known to Mycenaean Greece . " Figure @-@ of @-@ eight " shields were the most common type of Mycenaean shields . During the Late Mycenaean period , smaller types of shields were adopted , either of completely circular shape , or almost circular with a cut out part from their lower edge . 
