WALL NEAR CASE H. Cast of bull relief

Accession Number AN1936.585/CG.A.175
Year 1900-1930
Dimensions 44 cm x 76 cm
Medium plaster
Location Ashmolean Museum
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Cast of relief fragment showing bull’s legs. Original in British Museum, acquired from Lord Elgin and said to come from the Treasury of Atreus at Mycenae. Evans regarded this and another slab as Minoan, and evidence for Minoan influence on the mainland. He also used these slabs as evidence for an early date for the Treasury of Atreus, contradicting the much later date put forward (correctly) by Alan Wace.

Bibliography

Evans, Arthur. 1930. The Palace of Minos at Knossos, III, p. 193-198, fig. 136
Myres, John (ed.). 1936. British Archaeological Discoveries in Greece and Crete 1886-1936, p. 13