Miniature fresco with plants and rodent tail (fieldmouse?)



Miniature fresco with plants and rodent tail (fieldmouse?)

Τ41Β
Plaster
Incomplete
Height: 6 cm.Width: 5 cm.
Knossos
Southeast House
Middle-Late Bronze Age, Neopalatial period. Middle Minoan ΙΙΙΒ-Late Minoan ΙΑ period:
1650-1500 BC:
Gallery:
XIII
Case:
144
Exhibition thematic unit:
Minoan wall paintings
The world of nature
Description
Fragment depicting wind-blown flowering plants and a brushstroke thought to be the tail of a fieldmouse curled around a stem. However, the fragmentary state of preservation of the pieces, discovered in 1901, does not allow any definite conclusions to be drawn.
Bibliography:
A. Evans, Annual of the British School at Athens 1901-2, 92, 110 and 1902-3. Immerwahr, Sara Anderson, and Chapel Hill. Aegean painting in the Bronze Age. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1990. Lloyd, Jane R. "The South House at Knossos: more than a house?" Hesperia Supplements 44 (2011): 163-175.
Author:
K. A.


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