DESK CASE L. Libation table

Accession Number AN1896-1908.AE.1
Year 1700 BCE - 1450 BCE
Dimensions 19.6 cm x 14 cm
Medium steatite
Location Ashmolean Museum
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Fragment of a so-called libation table acquired by Evans from Psychro Cave in 1896. It allowed him to define the script he called ‘Linear A’. Another fragment was acquired by the French archaeologist Pierre Demargne and a cast added to the Ashmolean fragment to give the object its present appearance.

Bibliography

Evans, Arthur. 1921. The Palace of Minos at Knossos, I, pp. 625-630, fig. 466
Myres, John (ed.). 1936. British Archaeological Discoveries in Greece and Crete 1886-1936, p. 27