Minoan steatite seal

An image of Black steatite or chlorite seal, disc-shaped, design on one surface, a circle divided into four, each decorated with three parallel lines. Height 0.017 m, width 0.005 m, depth 0.0105 m. Middle Minoan I-II Period.

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Black steatite or chlorite seal, disc-shaped, design on one surface, a circle divided into four, each decorated with three parallel lines. Height 0.017 m, width 0.005 m, depth 0.0105 m. Middle Minoan I-II Period.

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Accession Number: GR.7.2001
Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
Aperture: f/32.0
Focal length: 50
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: 84.06kB
Exposure time: 1/60
ISO Speed: 100
Fnumber: 32/1
Captured: 2007:04:25 22:16:12

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

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