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| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Object | |
| Name: | ZST 65 | |
| Title: | STEATITE LENTOID SEAL | |
| Category: | Miscellaneous | |
| Category Code: | ZST | |
| Object Number: | 65 | |
| Old Number: | Z-804 | |
| Description: | Lentoid seal of steatite | |
| Decoration: | "Cut in a style so impressionistic and so careless that the representation is almost impossible to distinguish. It seems to be a fantastic quadruped to left, with a huge body, high slender neck depicted by a single line and a goatlike head from which rise branching antlers. The confused group of strokes directly before the body may again be an attempt to render scenery; and the whole looks like a very much debased version of the same kind of subject on a" sealing found in the Potter's Shop drain trap (no #) (Blegen, Zygouries, pg 207) | |
| Material: | Steatite | |
| Condition: | Complete or intact. Intact. | |
| Period: | Late Helladic III | |
| Area: | Zygouries | |
| Context: | NB990 | |
| Findspot Description: | Chamber Tomb XXXIII, Zygouries | |
| Bibliography: | Zygouries fig 48.3, page 58; page 61; page 207, fig 197.3 | |
| Site: | Zygouries | |
| City: | Agios Basilios | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| References: | Publication: Blegen, Zygouries: a prehistoric settlement ... 1928 Monument: Zygouries Basket: NB990 |
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