Inscribed seals and the Archanes-formula seals

Not kept here. This copy isn't ours to show. See it where it's published.

About 200 engraved seals of stone, bone and metal, mostly three- and four-sided prisms, carry the bulk of the script's sign groups; the earliest, from the Archanes-Phourni cemetery of the late Prepalatial period, bear the recurring Archanes formula. Whether every motif on a seal face is writing is the main open question about the corpus. The seals are catalogued in CHIC S 180 to 314, in the CMS seal corpus and in the DBAS-CHS database.

A. M. Jasink and L. Bombardieri, University of Florence, 1650. Images by permission of CMS and CHIC; personal, scientific and educational use only

Copies 1

Dbas-chs database recordA. M. Jasink and L. Bombardieri, University of Florence · sagas.unifi.it · Images by permission of CMS and CHIC; personal, scientific and educational use onlyPrimary source: DBAS-CHS: Cretan Hieroglyphic Seals database1 step from the original

Where it's published

Where it is kept

Heraklion Archaeological Museum · Museum

Sources 4

Cite it

Mysteries Department. (2026). Inscribed seals and the Archanes-formula seals [Artifact ART0DEDTWZGCKGW]. https://mysteriesdept.com/r/ART0DEDTWZGCKGW

@misc{mysteriesdept_art0dedtwzgckgw,
  title     = {Inscribed seals and the Archanes-formula seals},
  author    = {{Mysteries Department}},
  year      = {2026},
  note      = {Artifact, catalog key ART0DEDTWZGCKGW},
  url       = {https://mysteriesdept.com/r/ART0DEDTWZGCKGW}
}