Inscriptions (RMP)

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impronta sigillo
CMS II, 6 44
 
Inventory
71974
Inventory: 71974
Museum: Pigorini Museum of Rome
Measure: 2.5 x 1.7 x 0.9
Shape: Flat-based nodule. Lines'impressions on the versus
Inscription: Without inscriptions
Motif: CMS II,6 44. A seal impression - from an oval convex metal ring -: representation of the taurocathapsia (bull-leaping scene)
Bibliography: Borda 1946: 65 no. 13; CMS II,6, 44; Del Freo 2002-2003: 67 no. 23; Albertini-Jasink-Montecchi 2013: 11
Notes: Only this nodule is impressed with the bull-leaping scene, which, on the contrary, is a well known motif in the Minoan art