LATE HELLADIC II-III, CIRCA 15TH-14TH CENTURY B.C.

The convex surface is engraved with a bull in profile with its head turned back. Projecting from the lower neck of the bull is a fifth bent leg, while descending below its belly is the curving protome of an animal with crosshatching along its neck. In the field above is the protome of another animal, perhaps a bird, described elsewhere as perhaps representing the so-called “sacral knot” (see p. 151 in Betts, op. cit.). For another bull of similar style with different space-filling motifs, see no. 509 in O. Krzyszkowska, Aegean Seals.