DescriptionWall painting of the Saffron Gatherer from Knossos (room of the saffron gatherer) - Heraklion AM - 02.jpg
English: - object type: wall painting (fresco)
- description: (reconstruction Evans) youth, painted blue, gathering saffron into a basket / (reconstruction P. de Jong): blue monkey (a second monkey added) gathering saffron into a basket, in a typically minoan landscape
- period / date:
(museum description) 1700-1450 BC
(Immerwahr 1990) middle minoan IIIB – late minoan IA, 1600-1500 BC
(Hood 2005) middle minoan IIIA, 1700-1600 BC
- height: 25 cm
- width: 46 cm
- findspot: Knossos, Early Keep / room of the saffron gatherer
- museum / inventory number: Heraklion, Archaeological Museum
- bibliography:
- Sara Anderson Immerwahr, Aegean Painting in the Bronze Age, London 1990, cat. Kn No. 1
- Sinclair Hood, Dating the Knossos frescoes, in: Lyvia Morgan (ed.), Aegean Wall Painting. A tribute to Mark Cameron, London 2005, cat. 5
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