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SHAPE CLASSES
0.9 to 1.8 cms. All three examples are bored lengthwise. The workmanship of 13b seals is fair
to good and the extant examples vary considerably in shape.
Decoration and dating
A scorpion, tubular drill ornament and a Z-whirl decorate the three extant 13b Foliate
Backs. The tubular drill ornament of CMS IX 27 is dated to MM IB-HI. CM 174 and CS 143
are both assigned to the MM IB-II Malia Workshop Complex.
13c) hard stone
CM 160, 166; CMS 112 148; VII 41; VIII 102; X 54; XII 98; CS 131, 133, 135, 140, 141; SM I 187 fig. 98a
total: 13
Foliate Backs in hard
stone are known in red agate
(three examples), carnelian
(two), rock crystal (two) and
other varieties of quartz. The
bases of most of the exam-
ples are ellipsoidal in plan,
but three are circular. Five
examples have seal faces
which are slightly but dis-
tinctly convex and those of
the remaining seals are flat. The backs of the seals are in the shape of two concave leaf-like
forms in axial symmetry. Foliate Backs in hard stone range in length from 0.8 to 1.5 cms. and
CMS VII 41
CMS XII 98
CS 140
cluster at approximately 1.3 cms. Most examples are of superb workmanship
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Decoration and dating
The motifs which decorate 13c Foliate Backs include an owl, leaves, petaloid loops, a C-
hook, croix pommetee.zs well as signs of the Hieroglyphic B script. All but two of the seals
of this subclass are assigned to the MM II (-? ) Hieroglyphic Deposit Group. Of the two ex-
ceptions, CMS 112 148 is unfinished and came to light in the MM II Malia Workshop and CMS
XII 98, on the basis of the kind of croix pommetee (Motif 36:3) it is decorated with, belongs
to the MM IB-II Malia Workshop Subgroup. Foliate Backs are the shape par excellence of the
Hieroglyphic Deposit Group.
Class 14: GABLES
Gables have circular, flat bases and upper surfaces which peak like a gable, usually at about
a thirty degree angle. Three-sided Prisms are somewhat similar in shape to Gables but their sides
meet at sixty degree angles. The motifs carved into Gables differ distinctly from those of Prisms.
Matz first identified Gables as a specific seal shape.116
SHAPE CLASSES
0.9 to 1.8 cms. All three examples are bored lengthwise. The workmanship of 13b seals is fair
to good and the extant examples vary considerably in shape.
Decoration and dating
A scorpion, tubular drill ornament and a Z-whirl decorate the three extant 13b Foliate
Backs. The tubular drill ornament of CMS IX 27 is dated to MM IB-HI. CM 174 and CS 143
are both assigned to the MM IB-II Malia Workshop Complex.
13c) hard stone
CM 160, 166; CMS 112 148; VII 41; VIII 102; X 54; XII 98; CS 131, 133, 135, 140, 141; SM I 187 fig. 98a
total: 13
Foliate Backs in hard
stone are known in red agate
(three examples), carnelian
(two), rock crystal (two) and
other varieties of quartz. The
bases of most of the exam-
ples are ellipsoidal in plan,
but three are circular. Five
examples have seal faces
which are slightly but dis-
tinctly convex and those of
the remaining seals are flat. The backs of the seals are in the shape of two concave leaf-like
forms in axial symmetry. Foliate Backs in hard stone range in length from 0.8 to 1.5 cms. and
CMS VII 41
CMS XII 98
CS 140
cluster at approximately 1.3 cms. Most examples are of superb workmanship
113
Decoration and dating
The motifs which decorate 13c Foliate Backs include an owl, leaves, petaloid loops, a C-
hook, croix pommetee.zs well as signs of the Hieroglyphic B script. All but two of the seals
of this subclass are assigned to the MM II (-? ) Hieroglyphic Deposit Group. Of the two ex-
ceptions, CMS 112 148 is unfinished and came to light in the MM II Malia Workshop and CMS
XII 98, on the basis of the kind of croix pommetee (Motif 36:3) it is decorated with, belongs
to the MM IB-II Malia Workshop Subgroup. Foliate Backs are the shape par excellence of the
Hieroglyphic Deposit Group.
Class 14: GABLES
Gables have circular, flat bases and upper surfaces which peak like a gable, usually at about
a thirty degree angle. Three-sided Prisms are somewhat similar in shape to Gables but their sides
meet at sixty degree angles. The motifs carved into Gables differ distinctly from those of Prisms.
Matz first identified Gables as a specific seal shape.116