WALL CASE H. Replica of rhyton

Accession Number AN1922.245
Year 1920s
Medium plaster
Location Ashmolean Museum
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Replica of rhyton with palm tree decoration, found in the South East area of the Palace. Evans noted that the shape was derived from ostrich egg rhyta, but the decoration was Middle Minoan III polychromy. The replica is signed ‘Neos’ showing that it was made by Ashmolean conservator W.H. Young.

Bibliography

Evans, Arthur. 1921. The Palace of Minos at Knossos, I, pp 594-595, fig. 436C

Evans, Arthur. 1928. The Palace of Minos at Knossos, II, p. 224, fig. 129,4

Myres, John (ed.). 1936. British Archaeological Discoveries in Greece and Crete 1886-1936, p. 24