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Lentoid seal with a bull scratching his head
Early Aegean, Minoan
Bronze Age, Late Minoan II–IIIA Period
about 1470–1315 B.C.
Medium/Technique
Carnelian
Dimensions
Length: 24 mm (15/16 in.)
Credit Line
John Wheelock Elliot and John Morse Elliot Fund
Accession Number68.543
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsJewelry, Ancient Greece and Rome
ClassificationsSeals
DescriptionDark sard. Lentoid seal; pierced lengthwise. Bull to right twisting his head back to scratch it with his raised right hind foot. A Boeotian shield in front of his abdomen. A “sacred knot” in the field below. Missing chips and scratches on the front. White accretions on the back.
ProvenanceBy date unknown: with Euripides Sepheriades; purchased by MFA from Euripides Sepheriades, September 11, 1968