| Scope and Content |
A watercolour illustration of the outside of a bowl decorated in a mixture of red and black horizontal lines and black and white vertical lines. The original description in the catalogue reads: "The inside (a) and outside (c) of a bowl, to be classed with the dove cup (89 l). It is, however, much more elaborate. Inside the bowl is a whole flock of sheep, or perhaps oxen, followed by the shepherd. There are now 160 animals; originally there were perhaps a few more. The pattern on the outside of the bowl, with its appearance of weaving, is perhaps intended to represent the fence of the sheepfold, made, as now in Crete, by weaving bundles of brushwood into a fixed framework of hurdles." However, the image labelled a is the outside and c the inside. |
