CASE K. Lentoid seal showing calf’s head

Accession Number AN1938.970
Year 1700 - 1600 BCE
Dimensions dia 1.9 cm
Medium schist
Location Ashmolean Museum
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This seal shows a calf’s head. Evans thought that it was ‘prepared for the table’, that is about to be cooked.

Bibliography

Evans, Arthur. 1935. The Palace of Minos at Knossos, IV, p. 491, fig. 425

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. 421