AREA OF THRONE. Wooden replica of the throne

Accession Number AN1896-1908.AE.2394
Year 1900-1936
Dimensions 140 cm x 50 cm
Medium wood
Location Ashmolean Museum
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This wooden copy of the Throne almost certainly came from Sir Arthur Evans’s house at Youlbury, near Oxford. Evans suggested that the stone Throne at Knossos itself looked like it derived from a wooden original and so had a number of examples made for himself and friends.

Bibliography

Evans, Arthur. 1935. The Palace of Minos at Knossos, IV, pp. 915-920, figs. 893

Myres, John (ed.). 1936. British Archaeological Discoveries in Greece and Crete 1886-1936, p. 25