CASE K. Gold Ring from Mycenae

Accession Number AN1938.1128
Year 1600 - 1450 BCE
Dimensions 2 x 1.2 cm
Medium gold
Location Ashmolean Museum
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This gold ring was purchased by Evans before 1901 and was said to come from Mycenae. It shows a female figure between what Evans interpreted as a shrine and a tree.

Bibliography

Evans, Arthur. 1901. “Mycenaean Tree and Pillar Cult and Its Mediterranean Relations”, Journal of Hellenic Studies 21, p. 182, fig. 56

Myres, John (ed.). 1936. British Archaeological Discoveries in Greece and Crete 1886-1936, p. 32

Hughes-Brock, Helen and Boardman, John. 2009. Corpus of Minoan and Mycenaean Seals VI: Oxford, the Ashmolean Museum, no. 279