In Chapter VI of Themis, Jane Ellen Harrison gives an extensive comparative analyis of the Hagia Triada Sarcophagus (the two main scenes pictured above).
She gives various examples of comparable scenes. Plato's Critias (119d-e) describes a bull sacrifice where the blood of the victim must touch a column where the laws Poseidon (who often is associated with a bull in Greek mythology) are inscribed as well as a curse. Bulls ranged free in the sanctuary of Poseidon and ten kings, after prayers, had to hunt down a bull for the sacrifice. After a bowl was filled with wine and each king puts a clot of blood in it, they drink swearing an oath to obey the laws.
