CASE K. Carnelian three-sided prism

Accession Number AN1938.791
Year 1800 - 1700 BCE
Dimensions 1.8 cm x 0.9 cm
Medium carnelian
Location Ashmolean Museum
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Carnelian three-sided prism showing a cat and signs in the Cretan Hieroglyphic script. Evans suggested in Scripta Minoan that “This remarkable seal may contain the name and titles of a Minoan prince, of whom the cat and snake were badges.”

Bibliography

Evans, Arthur. 1909. Scripta Minoa I, pp. 153, 270-271, fig. 121

Evans, Arthur. 1921. The Palace of Minos at Knossos, I, p. 277-178, fig. 207a

Myres, John (ed.). 1936. British Archaeological Discoveries in Greece and Crete 1886-1936, p. 28

Hughes-Brock, Helen and Boardman, John. 2009. Corpus of Minoan and Mycenaean Seals VI: Oxford, the Ashmolean Museum, no. 93