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| Collection: | | Corinth | | Type: | | Object | | Name: | | Z 821 | | Title: | | EARLY HELLADIC STAMP | | Category: | | Miscellaneous | | Category Code: | | Z | | Object Number: | | 821 | | Description: | | "Button seal" that consists of a flat, disk-like portion below, on which is the circular face of the stamp, surmounted by a solid rounded top of slightly smaller diameter. A small hole is neatly bored horizontally through this upper part, no doubt for a string by which the signet could be carried. The seal is on the whole rather clumsily made, as if whittled down here and tehre by a knife; its surface, of a dirty brown color, is not smoothly finished, though it seems to have been lightly polished. (Blegen, Zygouries, pg 189) | | Decoration: | | A design rudely executed in incised technique occupies the face of the seal. It consists of a circle divided into quarters by two crossing lines; the ends of the latter do not reach the circumfrence, but terminate in three cases in a sort of double closed scroll, while the forth ends against an open curved line. This differentiation, which is not very strongly indicated, may perhaps mark the top or bottom of the seal. In each quarter is a crudely formed sign, all four of which are different from one another. Three are easy to distinguish, but the fourt is difficult, since it has come into conflict with the scroll. (Blegen, Zygouries, pg 189 with attempt at decipherment on this page to 190 as well) | | Condition: | | Complete or intact. Intact | | Dimensions Actual: | | H: 0.025; D of face: 0.034 | | Period: | | Early Helladic | | Findspot Description: | | House Y, Zygouries | | Bibliography: | | Zygouries page 189-190; plate XXI.4 | | Site: | | Corinth | | City: | | Ancient Corinth | | Country: | | Greece | | References: | | Publication: Blegen, Zygouries: a prehistoric settlement ... 1928
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