AREA OF THRONE. Reconstruction of the Throne Room

Accession Number GB/1648/AJE/4/2/2/4/3
Artist Edwin Lambert
Year 1917
Dimensions 38 cm x 56 cm
Medium painting
Location Ashmolean Museum
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This coloured reconstruction of the Throne Room was drawn by Edwin Lambert in 1917, after an earlier version by Theodore Fyfe. It was used as the frontispiece for the second part of The Palace of Minos IV. It also provided the decorative scheme for the later reconstruction of the Throne Room.

Bibliography

Evans, Arthur. 1935. The Palace of Minos at Knossos, IV,2, pp. 915-946, frontispiece

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