Object photograph·C04343b·1927–1931

Glyptic (A.I.2727)

Engraved dark oval seal from Ayia Irini with a bird-like figure, photographed on a card mount — Photograph: Swedish Cyprus Expedition, 1927–31. Medelhavsmuseet, Stockholm, C04343b. Public domain (CC0).

Description

A dark, oval seal stone photographed on a white card mount, with a thin raised border around its edge. The engraved design shows a bird-like figure with a spread wing or plume at the left, a curved neck or head at the top and two long legs at the bottom, set among fine scratched lines. A handwritten label is written on the mount below the photograph.

English, translated from the Swedish record

Glyptic, A.I.2727.

Swedish, as on the record

Fynd från Svenska cypernexpeditionen. Glyptic, A.I.2727

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