T-shirt Painting Bull's Head
Cotton t-shirt painting activity featuring a bull's head rhyton (ritual vessel) from the "Little Palace" of Knossos (Neopalatial period, 1600-1500 BC). Children can paint this design inspired by the original made of serpentine with mother of pearl, rock crystal and jasper. This educational activity helps children learn about the bull as a sacred animal in Eastern Mediterranean cultures, symbolizing fertility, rebirth and the liquid element. In Crete, the bull was a cult symbol of the Minoan civilization.