Object photograph·C05392n·1927–1931

Glyptic scarab from Amathus

Description

A close photograph of a flat object with cut corners and a raised oval design in its centre. Inside the oval, a four-legged animal stands to the right, and a smaller bird-like or human-like figure with a rounded shape sits to the left, with a further shape above them. The relief looks soft and worn, and the object fills most of the frame against a grey background.

Other scans of this record (2)

Description, scan 2: The upper photograph shows the rounded back of the scarab covered with a fine diagonal lattice of raised lines. The lower photograph shows its flat oval base, with a faint raised design of figures and a pale painted border around the edge. Both views are pasted on a pale card mount.
Description, scan 3: A single oval object, domed at one end, covered with a raised pattern of diamond-shaped bumps separated by grooves. Dark patches and shadows mark its surface, and the object sits against a plain grey background on a pale card border. No figures are clearly visible on the side shown.

English, translated from the Swedish record

Amathus T. 2-26. Glyptic. Stone scarab with figures and pattern.

Swedish, as on the record

Föremålsbild, fynd från Svenska cypernexpeditionen. Amathus T. 2-26.

Swedish, as on the record

Fynd från Svenska cypernexpeditionen. Glyptic