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Lentoid seal with a bird
Early Aegean, Minoan or Modern
Bronze Age, Late Minoan I Period or Modern
about 1700–1460 B.C.
Medium/Technique
Chalcedony
Dimensions
1.5 x 1.4 x 0.7 cm (9/16 x 9/16 x 1/4 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Mrs. Beulah H. Emmet
Accession Number1971.169
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAncient Greece and Rome
ClassificationsSeals
DescriptionWhite with thin reddish orange bands chalcedony. Lentoid seal; pierced horizontally. Bird (waterfowl?) in profile to left between a s-shaped motif at left and a bucranium at right. Schematic style with a round drill used for eyes, muzzle, heads and bird’s body and a tubular drill for the s curves.
ProvenanceBy 1928: Mrs. Beulah H. Emmet Collection (one of a group of gems [MFA 1971.159-.176] acquired on Crete from Mr. Kephalogiannis in 1928, according to M. H. Wiencke, AJA 73 [1969], p. 33); gift of Mrs. Beulah H. Emmet to MFA, April 14, 1971