CASE K. Seal showing man roping sheep or goat

Accession Number AN1938.1021
Year 1450 - 1375 BCE
Dimensions 2.2 cm x 1.5 cm
Medium carnelian
Location Ashmolean Museum
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This seal shows a man roping a sheep or goat with its young below. Evans consistently described it as a sheep in his publications but in the printed catalogue it is described as a wild goat. The horn shape makes it more likely that it is a sheep or domestic goat.

Bibliography

Evans, Arthur. 1935. The Palace of Minos at Knossos, IV, p. 569, fig. 543

Myres, John (ed.). 1936. British Archaeological Discoveries in Greece and Crete 1886-1936, p. 29

Hughes-Brock, Helen and Boardman, John. 2009. Corpus of Minoan and Mycenaean Seals VI: Oxford, the Ashmolean Museum, no. 327