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The Cut Style

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The Zakros Master Seals

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The Talismanic Seals:

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The stamps that have been used to create the inscriptions of the Phaistos Disc (they date to MM IIB and are typically Phaistian):

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New book on Aegean seals, long awaited for, the work of a lifetime from seal scholar Janice Crowley:

J. Crowley. 2024. IKON. Art and Meaning in Aegean Seal Images. Heidelberg (Propylaeum).

Abstract (by the author): The ICON book is a revelation of the lives of the Aegean peoples drawn from the hands of their own artists. ICON presents the images that are carved or chased on Aegean seals and signets and interprets their meaning in the absence of accompanying deciphered texts. Throughout their long floruit, the seals give the most extensive illustrations of life as it was lived and imagined in Minoan Crete and Mycenaean Greece in the Bronze Age.

ICON, with its 1800 illustrations, is the first comprehensive iconographic analysis of the Aegean seal images. ICON describes and interprets the images through a dedicated vocabulary which recognizes their artistic innovations and celebrates the detail of their sophisticated, nuanced and polyvalent iconography.

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ICON: Art and Meaning in Aegean Seal Images | Propylaeum Das ICON-Buch offenbart uns das Leben der frühägäischen Völker, so wie es durch die Hände ihrer Künstler verewigt wurde. ICON präsentiert die Bilder, die auf Siegeln eingraviert oder ziseliert wurden und beleuchtet ihre Bedeutung trotz des Fehlens begleitender entzifferter Texte. Während ihr...

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The Central Crete Ornamental Group:

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New and old seals, seal impressions and administrative documents from Myrtos-Pyrgos!

Weingarten, Judith – Ferrara, Silvia – Cadogan, Gerald. 2024. Multimedia at Minoan Myrtos-Pyrgos, Crete. BSA, Published online 2024: 1-29. doi:10.1017/S0068245423000114

Abstract (by the authors): The Minoan settlement of Myrtos–Pyrgos on the south coast of Crete has produced five seals (and one unfinished seal), 11 seal impressions on clay vessels, two roundels and one nodulus, as well as two Linear A tablets and two inscriptions on clay vessels. Dating between Early Minoan II and Late Minoan IB, these documents form valuable evidence for the development of sealing, marking and writing practices at a small but important rural settlement, including a penchant for using antique seals for stamping jars. They contribute too to understanding the regional hierarchical and, probably, political cultures of Crete throughout this long period, especially in the late Protopalatial phase of Middle Minoan IIB, when there seems to have been a special relationship with Malia on the north coast, and again in Late Minoan IB, when there was a relationship with Knossos. Finally, the paper discusses a pithos fragment from Tel Haror in Israel, which appears to have an inscription in Cretan Hieroglyphic or Linear A, and may well have been a product of Myrtos or nearby.

MULTIMEDIA AT MINOAN MYRTOS–PYRGOS, CRETE | Annual of the British School at Athens | Cambridge Core MULTIMEDIA AT MINOAN MYRTOS–PYRGOS, CRETE

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The Mesara Chlorite Group, or: Not all Protopalatial seals are connected with the Cretan Hieroglyphic, or: The Mesara stands out

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The Hieroglyphic Deposit Group

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The Protopalatial Malia Steatite Seals

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New seal, published in 2022, in which it is possible for the first time (!!!) to identify a hitherto enigmatic sign of the so-called Archanes Formula (MM I script) as the head of a man!

Kanta, Athanasia – Palaima, Thomas G. – Perna, M. 2022. A Hieroglyphic seal from the cult centre of the city of Knossos (KN S (4/4) 01). Kadmos 61.1-2: 61–96.

Abstract (by the authors): The Hieroglyphic seal KN S (4/4) 01, found in the Neopalatial Room 3 of the Cult Centre of the City of Knossos, is a document of considerable importance in the study of Cretan script for several reasons.With regard to iconography and palaeography, we have identified for the first time the true idealized form of sign 095, and that permits us to correct our under-standing of the shape of other examples of the same sign and thereby to improve our knowledge of the palaeographical development of the Hieroglyphic script. Furthermore, this new document preserves one more attestation of the so- called Arkhanes “formula” and shows a connection between this “formula” and the fraction signs. Finally, this seal confirms also a relationship between this “formula” and the logogram *181 on the one hand and the sign 010 on the other hand.

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A Hieroglyphic seal from the cult centre of the city of Knossos (KN S (4/4) 01) The Hieroglyphic seal KN S (4/4) 01, found in the Neopalatial Room 3 of the Cult Centre of the City of Knossos, is a document of considerable importance in the study of Cretan script for several reasons. With regard to iconography and palaeography, we have identified for the first time the true idea...