Object photograph·C01013b·1927–1931

Glyptic, seal

Engraved oval stone seal with a winged creature and a hatched band below it, shown close up — Photograph: Swedish Cyprus Expedition, 1927–31. Medelhavsmuseet, Stockholm, C01013b. Public domain (CC0).

Description

A close view of an oval seal face cut in stone, with a dark rim around the edge. The design is carved in shallow relief: a winged creature with a rounded head and a long curved wing, a round object at its lower right, and a band of diagonal hatching along the bottom. The surface is worn and the carving is shown filling the frame.

English, translated from the Swedish record

Glyptic.

Swedish, as on the record

Fynd från Svenska cypernexpeditionen. Glyptic

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