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Amygdaloid seal with a ship
Early Aegean, Minoan
Bronze Age, Middle Minoan III–Late Minoan I Period
about 1800–1430 B.C.
Medium/Technique
Steatite
Dimensions
Length x width: 25 x 16 mm (1 x 5/8 in.)
Credit Line
Theodora Wilbour Fund in memory of Zoë Wilbour
Accession Number63.482
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAncient Greece and Rome
ClassificationsSeals
DescriptionGreen steatite. Pierced for stringing (horizontal). Motif oriented horizontally. Crescent-shaped ship, with central mast and unfurled sail with cross-hatched pattern. Six ropes or halyards, three on each side of mast, hanging off sail. The prow is curved high, and there is a rudder at right end (stern) of ship. Water below ship represented by overlapping cross-hatches.
ProvenanceBy date unknown: with Euripides Sepheriades; purchased by MFA from Euripides Sepheriades, May 8, 1963