CASE K. The Archanes Ring

Accession Number AN1896-1908.AE.2237
Year 1600-1500 BCE
Dimensions 2.3 x 3.5 cm
Medium gold
Location Ashmolean Museum
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This gold ring was said to have been found at Archanes, near Knossos. It shows a man leaping over a bull with a ‘sacral knot’ in front and paving below. Although previously regarded as a forgery it is now regarded as genuine because of its technological similarities with other known Minoan rings.

Bibliography

Evans, Arthur. 1930. The Palace of Minos at Knossos, III, pp. 219-220, fig. 154

Myres, John (ed.). 1936. British Archaeological Discoveries in Greece and Crete 1886-1936, p. 32

Hughes-Brock, Helen and Boardman, John. 2009. Corpus of Minoan and Mycenaean Seals VI: Oxford, the Ashmolean Museum, no. 336