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Cretan seal, with an eye, two fish, and glyphs

Image attached to GR.17.1901

An image of Seal, with an eye (?), two fish, and glyphs. Find Spot: Epano Zakro, Crete, Greek Islands. Steatite, carved, height 0.017 m. Middle Minoan IB & Bronze Age.

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Seal, with an eye (?), two fish, and glyphs. Find Spot: Epano Zakro, Crete, Greek Islands. Steatite, carved, height 0.017 m. Middle Minoan IB & Bronze Age.

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  • Accession Number: GR.17.1901
  • Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
  • Aperture: f/22.0
  • Focal length: 120
  • Camera: Hasselblad H3DII-31
  • Photographer name: Amy Jugg
  • Image height: 709 pixels
  • Image width: 1024 pixels
  • Processed with: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.4 (Windows)
  • Filesize: 117.16kB
  • Exposure time: 1/125
  • ISO Speed: 100
  • Fnumber: 22/1

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Ancient Greece antiquity BC Bronze Age carved Cretan fish Fitz_ANT Greek Minoan Period seal soapstone steatite

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rgb(109,87,57), rgb(232,228,223), rgb(161,151,137), rgb(202,184,157), rgb(162,136,101), rgb(53,41,27), rgb(133,119,101), rgb(197,170,139), rgb(173,172,172), rgb(69,43,24), rgb(147,140,115)

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