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Object photograph·C04407aaa·1927–1931

Glyptic

Side view of a stone scarab seal, photographed as a glyptic find
Photograph: Swedish Cyprus Expedition, 1927–31. Medelhavsmuseet, Stockholm, C04407aaa. Public domain (CC0).

Description

A small photograph of a scarab-shaped object seen from the side, with a domed upper back and a lower section marked by a row of short raised ridges. The surface is mottled and worn, and the object fills most of a white print on a light grey card mount.

English, translated from the Swedish record

Glyptic.

Swedish, as on the record

Fynd från Svenska cypernexpeditionen. Glyptic