CASE K. Seal showing hunter and wild goat

Accession Number AN1938.1023
Year 1450 - 1375 BCE
Dimensions 2.5 cm x 1 cm
Medium agate
Location Ashmolean Museum
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This seal shows a hunter stabbing a wild goat. The seal was probably recut from a bead and it is now regarded as later than Evans’s date of Late Minoan Ib. Evans acquired the seal at Ayia Pelagia in Crete before 1900, possibly from a tomb group.

Bibliography

Evans, Arthur. 1935. The Palace of Minos at Knossos, IV, pp. 576-577, fig. 559

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. 345