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Reproduction of the bull head rhyton from the Little Palace at Knossos
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Reproduction of original serpentinite bull head rhyton with shell, crystal, and jasper inlays. The original was found in the 'Little Palace' at Knossos, and is now in the Herakleion Archaeological Museum. (HM 1368, HM 1550)
For information on the original see Robert B. Koehl, Aegean Bronze Age Rhyta (Philadelphia, 2006), cat. 307, p. 118.
Department of Ancient and Byzantine Art & Numismatics
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum Gift of Mrs. Schuyler Van Rensselaer
Title: Reproduction of the bull head rhyton from the Little Palace at Knossos
Description:
Reproduction of original serpentinite bull head rhyton with shell, crystal, and jasper inlays.
The original was found in the 'Little Palace' at Knossos, and is now in the Herakleion Archaeological Museum.
(HM 1368, HM 1550)
For information on the original see Robert B.
Koehl, Aegean Bronze Age Rhyta (Philadelphia, 2006), cat.
307, p.
118.
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