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Inventory: 82530
Shape: Stamp seal: lentoid shape, with horizontal passing-hole. Splits along the border, the greatest one next to one hole
Motif: On the carved face perhaps an example of "Cut Style": a very stylized bird with big flighting wings. Are we dealing with a "bird-lady"?
Provenance: Crete? Acquired in Greece in 1906 (from Lambros)
Measure: Diameter 2.1 x 2.2; Thickness 0.7; Hole Diameter 0.2
Chronology: Late Minoan II-III1A
Material: White fluorite (ARACHNE)
Bibliography: Laviosa 1969: 15 no. 15, Tav. IV; CMS XI 280; Jasink 2009: 85 (CR. 217)