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Inventory: 82822
Shape: Stamp seal: lentoid shape, with horizontal passing-hole
Motif: On the carved face a variant of the "talismanic" motif, perhaps belonging to the "Cretan Popular Group": a very stylized bird with flying wings. The head of the animal is moved toward right of its body. Splits along the hole and below the right wing
Provenance: Crete (?), acquired in Crete in 1906
Measure: Diameter 1.5 x 1.4; Thickness; Hole Diameter 0.2
Chronology: Late Minoan I-II (?)
Material: Black steatite
Bibliography: Laviosa 1969: 14 no. 13, Tav. IV; CMS XI 281; Jasink 2009: 85 (CR. 218)