The palaces of Crete and their builders . FIG. T,oa. FIG. 306. SEALS. for closing writings. The fastening was covered over with alump of plain clay, within which was the twine of vegetable fibreor papyrus, and an imprint, or generally two, were made upon theclay. This method of sealing was so common that in one singlepit 450 seal impressions were found made by a The seals were of gold, cornelian, or rock crystal, but the Evans, Further Discoveries, London, 1898. - Iliad vi. 168. Writing is not mentioned in tlie Odyssey, though thatpoem is the more recent : ire^ize ce f-ur \vKli]yce, Tro
The palaces of Crete and their builders . FIG. T,oa. FIG. 306. SEALS. for closing writings. The fastening was covered over with alump of plain clay, within which was the twine of vegetable fibreor papyrus, and an imprint, or generally two, were made upon theclay. This method of sealing was so common that in one singlepit 450 seal impressions were found made by a The seals were of gold, cornelian, or rock crystal, but the Evans, Further Discoveries, London, 1898. - Iliad vi. 168. Writing is not mentioned in tlie Odyssey, though thatpoem is the more recent : ire^ize ce f-ur \vKli]yce, Troper c 0 ye rT)) Xvypci |ypaxpac £ irivaki tttvkto) 0vijio(j)8upa ttoWci, | 3 Halbherr, Monumenti, xiii. p. 39, 1903. L. Savignoni, Resti dell etamiccnea scopertl ad Hagia Triada, Monumenti R. Accad. del Linici, vol. xiii.,1903. A MYCENAEAN VILLA 75 most ancient were made also in wood, steatite, or ivory. In thefrescoes men are seen wearing a bracelet on the wrist with oneof these intaglios, and even at the present day the Pashas a
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