Object photograph·C05069b·1927–1931

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Drawings of three seal-stones: a flat-topped seal above two scarab beetles, one seen from the back and one with an inscribed base. — Photograph: Swedish Cyprus Expedition, 1927–31. Medelhavsmuseet, Stockholm, C05069b. Public domain (CC0).

Description

Ink line drawings on a white card show three small objects. At the top is a piece with a sloping upper face above a flat band. Below left is a scarab beetle drawn from the back, with a ridge at the head and a line down the wing cases; below right is a scarab base with an oval border around a rectangular panel of small signs.

English, translated from the Swedish record

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Swedish, as on the record

Fynd från Svenska cypernexpeditionen. Glyptic