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Object photograph·C04335d·1927–1931

Glyptic

Seal impression showing a four-legged animal in profile, photographed on a mounted card
Photograph: Swedish Cyprus Expedition, 1927–31. Medelhavsmuseet, Stockholm, C04335d. Public domain (CC0).

Description

A photograph of a small raised impression on a pale grey ground, framed by dark edges. It shows a quadruped animal in profile, with a long body and four legs rendered as vertical bands, and the surface is worn and pitted in places. The print is mounted on a pale card with handwritten numbers written below it.

English, translated from the Swedish record

Glyptic.

Swedish, as on the record

Fynd från Svenska cypernexpeditionen. Glyptic