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English: - object type: wall painting (fresco) on high relief

- description: a) male athletes - b) male and female taureadors - c) bulls - d) fragment of female figure - e) griffins chained to colums - period / date: (Immerwahr 1990) middle minoan IIIB – late minoan IA, 1580-1530 BC (Hood 2005) possibly middle minoan IIIB before the destruction - height: cm - width: cm - findspot: Knossos, Palace, basement level of the East Corridor / Great East Hall, near the School Room and the Lapidary´s Workshop - museum / inventory number: Heraklion, Archaeological Museum - bibliography: - Sara Anderson Immerwahr, Aegean Painting in the Bronze Age, London 1990, cat. Kn No. 8 - Sinclair Hood, Dating the Knossos frescoes, in: Lyvia Morgan (ed.), Aegean Wall Painting. A tribute to Mark Cameron, London 2005, cat. 28

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