Inscriptions (MAF)

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segno inciso
AB 61 O
 
Inscription
Wa 1279
Inventory: 94764
Museum: Archaeological Museum of Florence
Measure: 2.0 x 1.7; thickness: 1.5
Shape: Hanging nodule with a single hole ("pyramid")
Inscription: Wa 1279: engraved symbol of a "rectangle with a a half-circle along the internal part of a side" (Linear AB 61 O). Scribe: Wa 74
Motif: CMS II,6 87. A worn seal impression - from a lentoid soft-stone seal -: the identification with a lion may be recognized (on the basis of identical sealings at the Heraklion Museum), with its head turning back and bended on its anterior legs
Bibliography: Laviosa 1969: 18 no. 8 Tavv. VII,8 e VIII,8; GORILA 2: 28; CMS II,6 87; Hallager 1996 II: 247; Jasink 2009: CR. 232; Albertini-Jasink-Montecchi 2014: 10