CASE K. Sealing showing lions

Accession Number AN1938.981
Year 1600 - 1450 BCE
Dimensions l 2.8 cm
Medium clay
Location Ashmolean Museum
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This sealing shows what Evans thought was a lion attacking a lioness, although it could be a boar. It was impressed by a metal ring.

Bibliography

Evans, Arthur. 1921. The Palace of Minos at Knossos, I, pp. 716-717, fig. 539b

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

Gill, Margaret, Müller, Walter, Pini, Ingo and Platon, Nikolaos. 2002. Corpus of Minoan and Mycenaean Seals II,8: Iraklion, Archäologisches Museum. Die Siegelabdrücke von Knossos, unter Einbeziehung von Funden aus anderen Museen, no. 342.