STANDING CASE F. Bronze bull and leaper

Accession Number GR 1966,0328.1
Year 1600 BCE - 1450 BCE
Dimensions 11.4 cm x 15.5 cm
Medium bronze
Location British Museum
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This unique bronze figure of a bull and leaper was acquired in 1921 by Capt. Spencer-Churchill. It was said to have come from Rethymnon on Crete. In the photo (from the 1936 Exhibition) the legs of the leaper are restored but this restoration was removed after the British Museum acquired the figure in 1966.

Bibliography

Evans, Arthur. 1921. “On a Minoan Bronze Group of a Galloping Bull and Acrobatic Figure from Crete. With Glyptic Comparisons and a Note on the Oxford Relief Showing the Taurokathapsia”, Journal of Hellenic Studies 41(2), pp. 247-259.

Evans, Arthur. 1928. The Palace of Minos at Knossos, II, pp. 650-651, fig. 416

Myres, John (ed.). 1936. British Archaeological Discoveries in Greece and Crete 1886-1936, p. 17