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A GOLD BROOCH, LALAOUNIS
Designed to represent the horns of the Minotaur, in hammered 20-22K gold
With maker's mark for Ilias Lalaounis
The minotaur was the mythical Greek monster shaped half as a man and half as a bull. Before being slain by Theseus, maidens and youths were regularly sacrificed to this creature.
Designed to represent the horns of the Minotaur, in hammered 20-22K gold
With maker's mark for Ilias Lalaounis
The minotaur was the mythical Greek monster shaped half as a man and half as a bull. Before being slain by Theseus, maidens and youths were regularly sacrificed to this creature.
Literature
Ilias Lalaounis, "Metamorphoses", Greece, 1984, p. 54 and 55, pl. 17