Minotaur - Mythical Creature - Minoan Period, Palace of Knossos, Crete - Small - pure Bronze Sculpture 

Condition: New, Made in Greece.
Material: Pure Bronze
Height: 14 cm - 5,5 inches
Width: 4 cm - 1,6 inches
Length: 2,5 cm - 1 inches
Weight: 220 g

The Minoan Civilization thrived in the Bronze age (in roughly 3,000 BC) within the Aegean. The center of this civilization was Crete while the Palace of Knossos is today a visitable excavation area with remarkable original restored exhibits from the ancient Palace. In Greek mythology, the Minotaur was a creature with the head of a bull on the body of a man or, as described by Roman poet Ovid, "part man and part bull". He dwelt at the center of the Cretan Labyrinth, which was an elaborate maze-like construction designed by the architect Daedalus and his son Icarus, on the command of King Minos of Crete. The Minotaur was eventually killed by the Athenian hero Theseus.