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Knossos

Dan Snow's History Hit

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The History of Knosos

The spesso in the shape of a bull's head would have been filled with wine. The heads of bulls were probably put on display as people were sitting there eating beef at Knosos and so these drinking vessels are a way to almost capture that moment of the bulls being bedded. So alongside bulls we also have other types of animals depicted too in the rightons.

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