CASE K. Gold Ring from Knossos Harbour Town

Accession Number AN1938.1129
Year 1600 - 1450 BCE
Dimensions l 2 cm
Medium gold
Location Ashmolean Museum
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This gold ring was said to have been found in the Knossos Harbour Town, probably Poros (now a suburb of Heraklion). It shows a man and woman next to a ship, a scene which has been interpreted as Theseus and Ariadne departing Knossos.

Bibliography

Evans, Arthur. 1935. The Palace of Minos at Knossos, IV, pp. 953-955, fig. 923

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. 280