CASE K. Lentoid seal showing female figures

Accession Number AN1938.1013
Year 1700 - 1600 BCE
Dimensions dia 1.9 cm
Medium schist
Location Ashmolean Museum
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This seal shows three female figures. One is central and perhaps is being dressed by the others: Evans referred to it as a ‘toilette scene’.

Bibliography

Evans, Arthur. 1935. The Palace of Minos at Knossos, IV, p. 518, fig. 461

Myres, John (ed.). 1936. British Archaeological Discoveries in Greece and Crete 1886-1936, p. 28

Hughes-Brock, Helen and Boardman, John. 2009. Corpus of Minoan and Mycenaean Seals VI: Oxford, the Ashmolean Museum, no. 283