Cretan seal, with an eye, two fish, and glyphs

An image of Seal, with an eye (?), two fish, and glyphs. Find Spot: Epano Zakro, Crete, Greek Islands. Steatite, carved, height 0.017 m. Middle Minoan IB & Bronze Age.

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Seal, with an eye (?), two fish, and glyphs. Find Spot: Epano Zakro, Crete, Greek Islands. Steatite, carved, height 0.017 m. Middle Minoan IB & Bronze Age.

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Accession Number: GR.17.1901
Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
Aperture: f/22.0
Focal length: 120
Camera: Hasselblad H3DII-31
Photographer name: Amy Jugg
Image height: 709 pixels
Image width: 1024 pixels
Processed with: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.4 (Windows)
Filesize: 117.16kB
Exposure time: 1/125
ISO Speed: 100
Fnumber: 22/1

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Ancient Greece antiquity BC Bronze Age carved Cretan fish Fitz_ANT Greek Minoan Period seal soapstone steatite

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