This seal shows three waterbirds. Evans described them as ducks and suggested that the scene derives from Egyptian wall painting (hence a ‘Nilotic scene’). He acquired this seal in 1899 as a gift from Iosif Hatzidakis, an important Cretan official.
Bibliography
Evans, Arthur. 1935. The Palace of Minos at Knossos, IV, p. 492, fig. 427
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. 459