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Inventory: 84587
Shape: Stamp seal: lentoid shape, with vertical passing-hole
Motif: The carved motif is a fight scene: a lioness snaps the muzzle of a deer and leans its back legs on the back of its prey. The knocked down deer has bended legs. Both animals are faced at right
Provenance: Crete
Measure: Diameter 3.9; Thickness 1.7; Hole Diameter 0.4
Chronology: Late Minoan II-III (?); fake (?)
Material: Black steatite
Bibliography: Laviosa 1969: 10-11 no. 5, Tav. II; Betts 1981: 27 no. 20; Bombardieri no. 19 in Jasink 2007; Jasink 2009: 85 (CR. 220)