Details
A Minoan bone disc-shaped seal
with the bone's natural hole in the centre, cut on each side with a) cross-hatching b) interlocked spirals -- 3 x 1.3cm.; a burnt bone seal, cone-shaped with flat top, the flat circular base with radiating linear design -- 1.1 x 0.6 x 1.3cm., both Early Minoan, 3rd millennium B.C.; a grey serpentine cushion-shaped rectangular seal, rev. linear and cross 'architectural' design seal -- 1.5 x 1.2cm., Middle Minoan II-III, circa 1700-1550 B.C.; a lozenge-shaped seal; and a green serpentine lentoid seal, rev. bull (recut) -- 1.9 x 0.7cm., Late Minoan, circa 1550-1100 B.C. (5)
with the bone's natural hole in the centre, cut on each side with a) cross-hatching b) interlocked spirals -- 3 x 1.3cm.; a burnt bone seal, cone-shaped with flat top, the flat circular base with radiating linear design -- 1.1 x 0.6 x 1.3cm., both Early Minoan, 3rd millennium B.C.; a grey serpentine cushion-shaped rectangular seal, rev. linear and cross 'architectural' design seal -- 1.5 x 1.2cm., Middle Minoan II-III, circa 1700-1550 B.C.; a lozenge-shaped seal; and a green serpentine lentoid seal, rev. bull (recut) -- 1.9 x 0.7cm., Late Minoan, circa 1550-1100 B.C. (5)
Provenance
Items 1-3 and 5 from the Erlenmeyer Collection of Cretan Seals; sold Christie's London, 5 June 1989, part lot 9, 11, 41 and 115