STANDING CASE F. Ivory Boy-God

Accession Number AN1938.692
Year 1920s
Dimensions h. 16.5 cm
Medium ivory and gold
Location Ashmolean Museum
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An ivory figure identified as genuine by Evans but is now widely regarded as fake. It is another example of a figure he called a ‘Boy-God’ which he acquired in the 1930s.

Bibliography

Evans, Arthur. 1935. The Palace of Minos at Knossos, IV, pp. 468-478, fig. 394-398

Myres, John (ed.). 1936. British Archaeological Discoveries in Greece and Crete 1886-1936, p. 17