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Bull-leaping.
The "Bull-leaping" fresco. Fresco found at the Palace of Knossos , with a representation of the bull-leaping, a kind of contest, probably religious in character, in which both men and women took part. A man is shown jumping over the back of a bull with a female figure on each side. Dated to the MM III-LM IB period (17th-15th centuries B.C.).
 
 
 
          
      
 
  
 
 
 
  
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