CASE K. Seal showing two cattle

Accession Number AN1938.1027
Year 1450 - 1375 BCE
Dimensions 2.2 cm x 1.9 cm
Medium agate
Location Ashmolean Museum
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This seal shows two sitting cattle and a plant. The shape of the seal is unusual and it is now regarded as later than Evans’s date of Late Minoan Ia. Evans classed it as a ‘cattle piece’, suggesting that such designs were copies of a sculptural original.

Bibliography

Evans, Arthur. 1935. The Palace of Minos at Knossos, IV, p. 567, fig. 541b

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. 426