CASE K. Seal ring showing goat chariot

Accession Number AN1938.1051
Year 1600 - 1400 BCE
Dimensions 2.8 cm x 2.1 cm
Medium banded agate
Location Ashmolean Museum
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This stone seal ring shows a chariot pulled by wild goats. There is a similar scene on the Ayia Triada sarcophagus. The ring was bought by Evans from an American collector, although he had previously seen an impression of the ring in Heraklion Museum.

Bibliography

Evans, Arthur. 1935. The Palace of Minos at Knossos, IV, pp. 822-825, fig. 803

Myres, John (ed.). 1936. British Archaeological Discoveries in Greece and Crete 1886-1936, p. 30

Hughes-Brock, Helen and Boardman, John. 2009. Corpus of Minoan and Mycenaean Seals VI: Oxford, the Ashmolean Museum, no. 285