Heraklion Archaeological Museum - CollectiveAccess System : Sealings : Hanging nodule with Cretan Hieroglyphic sign for wine [Σ-Τ689]

Hanging nodule with Cretan Hieroglyphic sign for wine

Σ-Τ689

Clay

Intact

Height: 1.5 cm. Diameter: 1-1.10 cm.

Phaistos

Palace, Room 25

Middle Bronze Age. Protopalatial period, Middle Minoan IIB period.:

c. 1700 BC:

Gallery:

III

Case:

Exhibition thematic unit:

Middle Bronze Age - Protopalatial period (1900-1700 BC). The First Palaces. The emergence of palatial societies

Writing and economic administration

Description

Clay hanging nodule with a single hole. Part of an assemblage of approximately 6,500 broken clay sealings from Room 25 of the palace of Phaistos, most of which come from the repeated sealing and unsealing of objects. This example bears the impression of a tiny seal with the head of a dog or lion against a net pattern. On one side is incised the logogram for wine, probably indicating the type of commodity involved in the transaction. Another five fragmentary sealings bear the impression of the same seal, which was 0.8 cm in diameter.

Bibliography:

Militello, P. “L’archivio di cretule” del vano 25 e un nuovo sigillo da Fest?s." In M. Perna (eds), Administrative Documents in the Aegean and Their Near Eastern Counterparts: Proceedings of the International Colloquium, Naples, February 29–March 2, 1996. Torino, 2000, 221–243.

Author:

G. F.

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