CASE K. Amygdaloid seal showing a fish

Accession Number AN1938.973
Year 1700 - 1600 BCE
Dimensions l 2.8 cm
Medium banded agate
Location Ashmolean Museum
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This seal shows a fish which Evans identified as a parrot wrasse, also known as the skaros. He thought the fish was shown in perspective, perhaps because of the arrangement of plants around it.

Bibliography

Evans, Arthur. 1921. The Palace of Minos at Knossos, I, p. 677, fig. 498

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. 257