STANDING CASE G. Replica of bull’s head rhyton

Accession Number AN1896-1908.AE.1247
Year 1600 BCE - 1450 BCE
Dimensions l. 8.9 cm
Medium steatite
Location Ashmolean Museum
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Evans bought this fragment of a stone rhyton on his first visit to Knossos in 1894 from a local inhabitant of the nearby village. It shows a structure with a ‘horns of consecration’ on top of it and a male figure nearby. The style helped to convince Evans that there were Bronze Age remains at Knossos.

Bibliography

Evans, Arthur. 1928. The Palace of Minos at Knossos, II, pp. 614–616, fig. 386

Myres, John (ed.). 1936. British Archaeological Discoveries in Greece and Crete 1886-1936, p. 18