Object photograph·C04319q·1927–1931

Glyptic, Amathus T. 2-26

Oval engraved seal from Amathus, with a figure cut into its face — Photograph: Swedish Cyprus Expedition, 1927–31. Medelhavsmuseet, Stockholm, C04319q. Public domain (CC0).

Description

An oval engraved seal from Amathus, shown close up on a pale grey card. It has a raised rim and a dark, worn design of a figure with a broad horizontal upper part and thin legs or lines below. A crack runs across the card at the lower right.

Other scan of this record (1)

Description, scan 2: An oval seal with a flat face, its engraved design showing as dark strokes: a set of horizontal bands at left, a curved motif at upper centre and a vertical stroke at right. It is photographed on a pale card with a short pencil line at lower left. The engraving is worn and hard to read in this reproduction.

English, translated from the Swedish record

Amathus T. 2-26. Glyptic.

Swedish, as on the record

Föremålsbild, fynd från Svenska cypernexpeditionen. Amathus T. 2-26.

Swedish, as on the record

Fynd från Svenska cypernexpeditionen. Glyptic