CASE K. Sealing showing a man wrestling a bull

Accession Number AN1938.1080
Year c. 1350 BCE
Dimensions 2.3 cm x 2.2 cm
Medium clay
Location Ashmolean Museum
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This clay sealing shows a man wrestling a bull rather than lifting it up as described in the catalogue. It has an inscription in Linear B both on the seal impression and on the reverse.

Bibliography

Evans, Arthur. 1930. The Palace of Minos at Knossos, III, pp. 230-231, fig. 163

Myres, John (ed.). 1936. British Archaeological Discoveries in Greece and Crete 1886-1936, p. 29

Gill, Margaret, Müller, Walter, Pini, Ingo and Platon, Nikolaos. 2002. Corpus of Minoan and Mycenaean Seals II,8: Iraklion, Archäologisches Museum. Die Siegelabdrücke von Knossos, unter Einbeziehung von Funden aus anderen Museen, no. 229.