STANDING CASE G. Replica lion’s head rhyton

Accession Number AN1896-1908.AE.783
Year 1900-1902
Dimensions l. 30 cm
Medium plaster
Location Ashmolean Museum
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This is a replica of a marble lion’s head rhyton which was found in the so-called ‘Central Treasury’ in the West Wing of the Palace of Knossos in 1900.

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), p. 31

Evans, Arthur. 1928. The Palace of Minos at Knossos, II, pp. 827-830, fig. 542-543

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