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Depictions of bull-leaping known from gold rings, used for sealing clay objects, were connected more closely to the individual wearer(s) for the self-identification of an elite (German, 2005).
Age (University Park and London, 1990), Io-II, 190o, with references to earlier publications. 3 The literature on bull-leaping frescos is immense. For bibliographical references and for a detailed list of Aegean frescos and painted stucco reliefs see appendices A and B in M. C. Shaw, 'Bull leaping frescoes at Knossos and their
bull-leaping in purely symbolic terms. An archaeological account informed by Human-Animal Studies can instead bring to the foreground both the familiarity and distinctiveness of past human-animal relationships. Keywords animal practice, Bronze Age, bull-leaping, cattle, Crete, Minoan Introduction
types of acrobatic performance, bull-leaping and sword-tumbling, in the Bronze Age Near East and Eastern Mediterranean. In Chapter 1 I articulate both a theoretical lens and a methodology for analyzing acrobatic performance in the ancient world. Grounded in both archaeological theory and modern circus
There were three main systems for depicting Aegean bull-leaping in the Late Bronze Age. Type I was described by Evans, Type II by Mrs. Sakellariou, while Type III is here presented for the first… Are we to believe that Late Minoan Crete was over-run with dancers and bull leapers?
Four main types of bull-leap can be identified: the “classic type”, the “schema of the diving leaper”, the “schema of the floating leaper”, and a fourth type which involved passing beneath the bull.
One of the featured objects, a Minoan bronze group of a bull and acrobat, was brought to life in a television advertisement using a modern bull and leaper. This act of translation is at the heart of the dialogue this paper seeks to address: the interaction between current human…
