The Zakro Sealings

Abstract

The circumstances under which a find of impressed clay nodules was made in a Mycenaean house at Kato Zakro, in East Crete, in May 1901, are related in the Annual of the British School at Athens vii. p. 133. The nodules are of a fine clay baked, probably intentionally and not by the conflagration which destroyed the house, to varying shades of red. A great number are broken, but the more perfect, including many bearing two and three impressions, show a groove on one edge, about an eighth of an inch deep and a little more wide, scored with straight and oblique scratches. This is the impress of something Cylindrical, to which the nodule was pressed while still wet. The appearance of the clay in the grooves shows that this object was not textile, and it may most reasonably be supposed to have been a reed, perhaps a papyrus stalk. The number of nodules is in all about 500.

Dropping Ecstasy? Minoan Cult and the Tropes of Shamanism

“…While gold rings are a prestige artistic medium, images engraved upon stone seals may have represented shamanistic activity undertaken by lesser elites. Depictions of composite figures on glyptic from Zakros consisting of female figures in conjunction with parts of birds, goats, cows, deer, lions and trees ( Figures 15, 16, 17, 18, 19) have been interpreted as "imaginary creatures," "monsters" and "demons" (Hogarth 1902;Weingarten 2009). It has been suggested that the artist responsible for their creation may have suffered from schizophrenia (Gill 1981, 85-6).…”

Νεοανακτορικά Σφραγίσματα Με Παραστάσεις Ανθρώπινων Μορφών

“…Οικία Α, ∆ωµάτιο VII. ΧΡΟΝΟΛΟΓΗΣΗ: ΥΜ ΙΒ περίοδος.ΒΙΒΛΙΟΓΡΑΦΙΑ:HOGARTH 1902, 78 no.11, pl. VΙ / LEVI 1925 XV / CMS II 7,.…”