CASE K. Seal showing Minoan Genius leading a bull

Accession Number AN1938.1040
Year 1600 - 1400 BCE
Dimensions dia 2.2 cm
Medium lapis lacedamonius
Location Ashmolean Museum
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This seal shows two griffins attacking a bull. Evans thought that there was a Linear B ideogram between the two griffins and that this signified a palatial office, but it is not clear whether it is a sign or a plant.

Bibliography

Evans, Arthur. 1935. The Palace of Minos at Knossos, IV, p. 624, fig. 611

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. 395