Inscriptions (MAF)

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segno inciso
AB 81 KU
 
Inscription
Wa 1557
Wa 1558
Wa 1471
Inventory: 94762
Museum: Archaeological Museum of Florence
Measure: 2.4 x 1.4; thickness: 1.2
Shape: Hanging nodule with a single hole
Inscription: Wa 1471: engraved "schematic bird" symbol (Linear AB 81 KU). Scribe: Wa 84
Motif: CMS II,6 11. A seal impression - from the same metal ring bezel as 94762 -: two male human figures in a likely religious garb, proceeding at left, the first with a stik leaned on his shoulder and bare from the waist up, the second wearing a particular dress (a "sacred dress"?). On the right border of the scene two groups of vertical lines
Bibliography: Laviosa 1969: 17 no. 6 Tavv. VI,6 e VIII,6; GORILA 2: 41; CMS II,6 11; Hallager 1996 II: 247; Jasink 2009: CR. 230; Albertini-Jasink-Montecchi 2014: 8
Notes: The engraved symbol AB 81 KU is one of the "variants" with a noteworthy difference from the standard symbol From the same seal six sealings in RMP (71950-71955)