AREA OF THRONE. Replica of the Throne

Accession Number AN1896-1908.AE.2396a-b
Year 1900-1902
Medium plaster
Location Ashmolean Museum
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This cast of the Throne was probably made soon after excavation in 1900 because it was exhibited in the 1903 Royal Academy exhibition. Evans was initially unsure whether it was for a woman or a man, but soon decided that it was the Throne of the Priest-King.

Bibliography

Evans, Arthur. 1900. “Summary Report of the Excavations in 1900: I. The Palace”, The Annual of the British School at Athens 6 (1899/1900), pp. 37-38

Evans, Arthur. 1935. The Palace of Minos at Knossos, IV, pp. 915-920, figs. 889-891

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