Minoan serpentine stamp seal

An image of Black serpentine pear-shaped stamp seal, the flat, circular base decorated with a spiral design with leaves at edges. height, 0.025, m, depth 0.014 m. Production Region: Crete. Middle Minoan I-II Period.

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Black serpentine pear-shaped stamp seal, the flat, circular base decorated with a spiral design with leaves at edges. height, 0.025, m, depth 0.014 m. Production Region: Crete. Middle Minoan I-II Period.

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Accession Number: GR.10.2001
Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
Aperture: f/32.0
Camera: Canon EOS-1Ds Mark II
Photographer name: Andrew Norman
Image height: 683 pixels
Image width: 1024 pixels
Processed with: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.7 (Macintosh)
Filesize: 89.76kB
Exposure time: 1/60
ISO Speed: 100
Fnumber: 32/1
Captured: 2007:04:25 22:28:04

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Ancient Greece antiquity Cretan engraved engraving Fitz_ANT Greek Minoan Minoan Period seal serpentine soapstone steatite

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