Object photograph·C05069j·1927–1931

Glyptic (A.i.2228)

Ink drawings of a scarab seal from Ayia Irini: top view, side view and inscribed base, mounted on a card. — Photograph: Swedish Cyprus Expedition, 1927–31. Medelhavsmuseet, Stockholm, C05069j. Public domain (CC0).

Description

Three line drawings in black ink are mounted on a cream card: on the left, a scarab beetle seen from above with its head and wing cases marked; upper right, the same beetle's side profile above a flat base; lower right, its oval base with several incised signs and a tall central panel. Handwritten labels are written in ink below the drawings.

English, translated from the Swedish record

Glyptic, A.i.2228.

Swedish, as on the record

Fynd från Svenska cypernexpeditionen. Glyptic, A.i.2228

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