Seal (Object)

Cylinder Seal

49-12-298

Location: On Display in the Eastern Mediterranean Gallery

From: Cyprus | Kourion | Bamboula

Curatorial Section: Mediterranean

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Object Number 49-12-298
Current Location Eastern Mediterranean Gallery - On Display
Culture Cypriot
Provenience Cyprus | Kourion | Bamboula
Site Name Kourion
Locus Tomb 19:30
Period Late Cypriot IIIA
Date Made 1200–1125 BCE
Section Mediterranean
Materials Stone
Description

Complete and intact. Much worn. Blue-gray fine grained slightly lustrous stone. Human or divine figure seated with raised hand before stand or altar supporting indefinable object. Horned animal before altar. Bull's head and bird with spread wings in upper field. Two unconnected rows of drillings in field.

Length 2 cm
Outside Diameter 0.9 cm
Credit Line Cyprus Expedition, J. F. Daniel, 1949
Other Number Mi195 - Field No SF | B1626 - Other Number

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