STANDING CASE G. Replica of gold lion’s head rhyton

Accession Number AN1896-1908.AE.1129
Year 1890s
Dimensions h. 18cm
Medium metal
Location Ashmolean Museum
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Electrotype replica produced by Gilliéron and son from the 1890s. Their electrotypes of Aegean Bronze Age and other antiquities were manufactured at the Württemberg Electro-Plate Company in Germany. The original came from Mycenae Shaft Grave IV. There is another fragmentary replica of the same rhyton in the Ashmolean collection, in two parts but it is not clear whether this was also displayed.

Bibliography

Evans, Arthur. 1928. The Palace of Minos at Knossos, II, p. 829, fig. 54 bis

Myres, John (ed.). 1936. British Archaeological Discoveries in Greece and Crete 1886-1936, p. 17