Ancient Mediterranean

Digital Project

Sealing of ship with deity

Cat. No.

A37

Date

LH IIIB

Findspot

Pylos, Palace of Nestor

Dimensions

L: 2.47 cm; H: 1.21; thickness: 0.83 (sealing)

Medium

Clay sealing of reddish-yellow clay. Two almost completely extant impressions of a metal ring

Accession Number

Athens National Archaeological Museum 10139

References

CMS IS no. 193; Wedde 2000: 339, no. 906; Younger 1988: 124

Crescentic hull. The lower edge of the hull and the right post are missing.

The ship carries three seated figures facing left. Between the first and the second figure - roughly in the middle of the image - are the legs of figure depicted on a larger-scale, suggesting a deity.

Sakellarakis, J.A. 1982. Athen, Nationalmuseum. CMS I Supplementum. Berlin: Gebrüder Mann.

Wedde, M. 2000. Towards a Hermeneutics of Aegean Bronze Age Ship Imagery. Peleus Studien zur Archäologie und Geschichte Griechenlands und Zyperns, vol. 6. Bibliopolis: Mannheim and Möhnsee.

Younger, J. G. 1988. The Iconography of Late Minoan and Mycenaean Sealstones and Finger Rings. Bristol: Bristol Classical Press.

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  • CMS IS 193

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