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6iS COUNTERMARKED SEALINGS OF WEST MAGAZINES
The lion seal used for these impressions seems, curiously enouoh f0
have been identical with that which had been made use of for a clay seal
brought to light in association with the tablets containing lists of men found
in the South Eastern quarter of the Palace, near those relating to hoards of
bronze swords. In that case the impression is countermarked with a 'man'
sign similar to the ideograph of the tablets.
Counter- Good specimens of sealings, some countermarked, as well as abundant
se'alings remains of deposits of inscribed tablets fallen from storerooms or offices
of West above, were found in or near the West Magazines.1 Fig. (504, a, depicts a
zine"s. coursing bull countermarked by something much resembling the ' balance'
sign. Fig. 604, 6, from the Fifth Magazine, shows a male figure in a conical
helmet grappling a mighty bull by the horns and neck,2 which is counter-
marked by the 'barred Z' sign. The fine intaglio from which the impres-
sion was taken would have supplied a good specimen of the gem-engraver's
art in the last palatial epoch. At the same time the intaglio itself—so
skilfully packed into the round field—affords another characteristic example
of the fully developed ' lentoid ' style of the palmy days of L. M. II.
This noble composition forms a fitting close to the long series of
examples of the gem engraver's skill throughout the days of the highest
development of Minoan Art, from the Eighteenth to the close of the Fifteenth
Century i;. c.
1 See Scripfa Minoa, pp. 42, 43, and ' See P. of M. iii, p. 231, Fig. 1C3.
Fi^. 20 a, b.
The lion seal used for these impressions seems, curiously enouoh f0
have been identical with that which had been made use of for a clay seal
brought to light in association with the tablets containing lists of men found
in the South Eastern quarter of the Palace, near those relating to hoards of
bronze swords. In that case the impression is countermarked with a 'man'
sign similar to the ideograph of the tablets.
Counter- Good specimens of sealings, some countermarked, as well as abundant
se'alings remains of deposits of inscribed tablets fallen from storerooms or offices
of West above, were found in or near the West Magazines.1 Fig. (504, a, depicts a
zine"s. coursing bull countermarked by something much resembling the ' balance'
sign. Fig. 604, 6, from the Fifth Magazine, shows a male figure in a conical
helmet grappling a mighty bull by the horns and neck,2 which is counter-
marked by the 'barred Z' sign. The fine intaglio from which the impres-
sion was taken would have supplied a good specimen of the gem-engraver's
art in the last palatial epoch. At the same time the intaglio itself—so
skilfully packed into the round field—affords another characteristic example
of the fully developed ' lentoid ' style of the palmy days of L. M. II.
This noble composition forms a fitting close to the long series of
examples of the gem engraver's skill throughout the days of the highest
development of Minoan Art, from the Eighteenth to the close of the Fifteenth
Century i;. c.
1 See Scripfa Minoa, pp. 42, 43, and ' See P. of M. iii, p. 231, Fig. 1C3.
Fi^. 20 a, b.