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Inventory: 85080
Shape: Stamp seal; bottle (or pear), with the stringhole, partially lacking, set-off from the body
Motif: The motif, carved on the base, is a geometrical/linear pattern: a cross, with one of the two arms redoubled, divides the face into four parts. Four rectilinear segments join the extremities of the arms forming a square
Provenance: Phaistos
Measure: Height 2.5; Base Diameter 1.3
Chronology: Pre/Protopalatial
Material: "Pietra ven.nero-bruna"(Laviosa)/"Breccia/Mittelharter Stein
Bibliography: Laviosa 1969: 10 no. 3, Tav. I; CMS XI 275; Bombardieri no. 23 in Jasink 2007; Jasink 2009: 83 (CR. 208); Jasink 2016 (forthcoming)