So....Maybe this Minoan jewel was never taken off "a dead Minoan hand"...

And if so, is it possible that at some point, Minoan elite took over Mycenae? Wow 🙂

That would explain huge Minoan cultural influence on Mycenaean culture. And I mean HUGE...

But now we know that The Griffin Warrior was not genetically Mycenaean (The 2022 Science study and UC research confirm no steppe ancestry. Actually, they confirm the exact opposite(science.org/doi/10.1126/... DNA shows local origins, rooted in Neolithic Aegean populations, not Yamnaya)...

Only to be taken off his dead wrist by an avenging Mycenaean warrior, buried in this warrior grave found near Pylos, Greece?

You're welcome. It adds new dept to this amazing fresco...I think 🙂

You might like this article which analysis this 17th c. BC Syrian cylinder seal and modern impression depicting a scene of bull leaping. It also puts forward an explanation for the bull leaping ritual and the time of the year when it was performed

oldeuropeanculture.blogspot.com/2022/07/bull...

You might find this article interesting. It talks about the importance of identifying the type of dolphin depicted on the fresco from the animal calendar markers point of view oldeuropeanculture.blogspot.com/2024/08/mino...

It is. And that is not the only thing that can be explained using animal calendar markers. Another example:

Chimera, mythical beast or complex animal calendar marker for "old summer" (Apr/May-Oct/Nov)? oldeuropeanculture.blogspot.com/2022/01/pega...

I contacted the authors of the paper and let them know about my work, and got no reply form any of them...

These animals are not the only animals whose annual mating, birthing, migrating behaviour caused them to be used as animal calendar markers across the world. I wrote many articles about this oldeuropeanculture.blogspot.com/search?q=ani...

I proposed that ibex/gazelle are linked with rain because of the fact that both animal mating seasons overlap with rain season in Eastern Mediterranean, Levant, Mesopotamia, Central Asia, Iran years before that. Some articles about this

oldeuropeanculture.blogspot.com/search?q=ibe...

The animal depicted on this object is gazelle not ibex. I analysed the object which illustrates this paper and have published a paper about it with the same conclusion, this animal is linked to rain, in 2022.
oldeuropeanculture.blogspot.com/2022/01/birt...

Start of Ibex mating season = rain season, start of snake mating season = dry season in Iran.

"Master of Animals" stamp seals, Tepe Giyan, Iran, 5000-4000 BC...

Article about the eternal struggle between the rain goat and the sun serpent/dragon...

oldeuropeanculture.blogspot.com/2024/08/mast...

You might like this article with the symbolic analysis of this object. Kneeling bull/cow holding a spouted [water] vessel...

Wild Eurasian cattle calving season used to start in Apr/May, which is the time when rivers in Iran and Mesopotamia flood...
oldeuropeanculture.blogspot.com/2022/02/elam...

I think this is actually a Goitered gazelle, animal whose mating season marks the rain season in Mesopotamia/Iran. I talk about it in
oldeuropeanculture.blogspot.com/2021/10/myst...
oldeuropeanculture.blogspot.com/2024/05/orig...
oldeuropeanculture.blogspot.com/2024/11/kass...

Both Goat and Vulture mating seasons mark the rain season in Mesopotamia/Iran. This lead to Vulture and Goat eventually being deified and linked to rain (gods). I explain this in these two articles.

oldeuropeanculture.blogspot.com/2025/02/zawi...
oldeuropeanculture.blogspot.com/2020/12/stri...