STANDING CASE G. Replica of bull’s head rhyton

Accession Number AN1896-1908.AE.1248
Year 1930s
Dimensions 41 cm x 25.6 cm
Medium plaster
Location Ashmolean Museum
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This replica of the bull’s head rhyton from the Little Palace was likely made for the 1936 Exhibition by the Heraklion Archaeological Museum conservator Zacharia Kanakis. The original was found in fragments in 1910 and went on display in Heraklion Archaeological Museum following restoration.

Bibliography

Evans, Arthur. 1914. The ‘Tomb of the Double Axes’ and Associated Group, and the Pillar Rooms and Ritual Vessels of the ‘Little Palace’ at Knossos’, pp. 79-94, figs. 87-90

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

Athanasaki, Katerina. 2023. ‘Replica of Bull’s Head Rhyton’, in A. Shapland (ed.) Labyrinth: Knossos, Myth and Reality, pp. 156-157