CASE K. Lentoid seal showing wounded calf

Accession Number AN1938.969
Year 1700 - 1450 BCE
Dimensions dia 1.8 cm
Medium chalcedony
Location Ashmolean Museum
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This seal shows a calf with an arrow in its side. It was obtained by Evans in the vicinity of Knossos. There is a variety of evidence for cattle hunting in Crete.

Bibliography

Evans, Arthur. 1935. The Palace of Minos at Knossos, IV, pp. 543-544, fig. 498

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

Hughes-Brock, Helen and Boardman, John. 2009. Corpus of Minoan and Mycenaean Seals VI: Oxford, the Ashmolean Museum, no. 404