Object photograph·C04410i·1927–1931

Glyptic (A.I.2181)

Photo mount with three photographs of a scarab and two engraved seal faces from Ayia Irini, with handwritten labels below — Photograph: Swedish Cyprus Expedition, 1927–31. Medelhavsmuseet, Stockholm, C04410i. Public domain (CC0).

Description

A card mount holds three photographs of small stone objects. The top photograph shows a scarab seen from its back, with a segmented, beetle-like shell. The two lower photographs show the engraved base of a seal, with an oval design of a central figure, branching lines and fan-like motifs, and handwritten labels run along the bottom edge.

English, translated from the Swedish record

Glyptic, A.I.2181.

Swedish, as on the record

Fynd från Svenska cypernexpeditionen. Glyptic, A.I.2181

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