AREA OF THRONE. The Argonaut Fresco

Accession Number GB/1648/AJE/4/1/17/1/3
Artist Émile Gilliéron fils (?)
Year 1901-1936
Dimensions 15 x 20 cm
Medium drawing
Location Ashmolean Museum
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This sketch of the Argonaut Fresco was probably drawn by Emile Gilliéron fils. It shows a type of octopus, an argonaut, with stylised tentacles. It is not clear if this is the drawing referred to in the printed catalogue.

Bibliography

Evans, Arthur. 1930. The Palace of Minos at Knossos, III, pp. 888-891

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