Below: Upper part of the page, Youth bearing a rhyton. Fresco from the palace of Knossos. Herkaklion, Archaeological Museum. Lower part of the page, Bull's head rhyton from the forth royal tomb of Mycenae. Athens, National Museum.
Below: Sacrifice scene, on a Late Minoan painting sarcophagus from Hagia Traiada. Two spotted calves are brought as gifts for the dead. Heraklion, Archaeological Museum.
Below: On the other side of the same sarcophagus from Hagia Traida, a large, motley bull lies bound on the sacrificial altar.
Below: Scenes of maenads with snakes, on a Tyrrhenian amphora. Paris, Louvre.
Below: Silenus treading out grapes, on an Archaic vase decorated by the Amasis painter. Wurzburg, Martin v. Wagner-Museum der Universitat.
Below: Mask between two goats. Transcript of a stone seal from a tomb near Phaistos. Heraklion, Archaeological Museum. Next to that one-A 'lord of the wild beasts,' on a Minoan seal from Kydonia. Oxford, Ashmolean Museum.
Youthful Dionysos in hunting boots, on a volute krater from Ceglie. Taranto, Museo Archeologico Nazionale
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