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An Eight-Sided Minoan Sealstone in the Ashmolean Museum

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 October 2013

Extract

The eight-sided prism of sardonyx, of which the eight faces are represented in Fig. 1, was acquired by Sir Arthur Evans in Eastern Crete, and is certainly of Cretan workmanship and Middle Minoan style.

All the signs are recorded already in Scripta Minoa I (Oxford, 1909) and are numbered there as follows:—

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © The Council, British School at Athens 1949

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