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Bull jumping on Crete was a peculiar, religious-cultistically motivated sport of the Cretans,
Original Bull leaping-Fresko in the Heraklion-Museum Crete, the following link leads you directly to the corresponding page on Wikipedia:
de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stiersprung
which placed considerable demands on courage and body control. The first pictorial representations of the bull's leap date from the early Moorish period in 2,700 BC.
The jumpers, men and women, jumped over the galloping bull with grip on the horns or on the back from the front and from the side with similar jumps as our modern gymnasts did when vaulting (rollovers, turns, turns and flanks).
Fresco exhibit of the Archaeological Museum in Heraklion, Crete, 1.500 B.C.
This hand-painted fresco is also available in the dimensions 50 cm x 27 cm, price € 198,- (please consider a delivery time of about 4 - 5 weeks).
This product was added to our catalog on Friday, April 3, 2015.