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Clay impressed roundel

Π-Ν83

Clay

Intact

Diameter: 2.9-3.2 cm. Thickness: 1-1.5 cm.

Gournia

Block C (Room 28)

Late Bronze Age. Neopalatial period, Late Minoan ΙA period.:

1600-1500 BC:

Gallery:

Case:

Exhibition thematic unit:

Late Bronze Age - Neopalatial period (1700-1450 BC). The New Palaces. The zenith of Minoan civilisation

Scripts and sealing practices

Description

Inscribed clay roundel. The inscription includes the logogram for “bull” and the number 5. The five impressions by the same seal around the edge of the roundel may correspond to the five bulls recorded and indicate a transaction involving them. Roundels were used for transactions involving the transport of a commodity, either within the central administration or between the central administration and an external agent. They were kept together in one place as a record of completed outgoing transactions.

Bibliography:

Hallager, E. The Minoan Roundel and other Sealed Documents in the Neopalatial Linear A administration. Li?ge, 1996, 11.

Author:

G. F.

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