M. M. II: HIEROGLYPHIC DEPOSIT : SEALINGS & SEALS 277

more fully treated under M. M. Ill, also now appears, which may be described
as a 'flattened cylinder'.

The shape of the clay sealings found in the Hieroglyphic Deposit, on Three-
which many impressions of seals of the above classes are seen, is more or less cilfy
three-sided. The sealings have one larger and two smaller faces, and show Sealings-

c 1-4 f g h 1-4

Fig. 207. a, Royal Bead-seal, Cornelian (f)j b, Chalcedony Signet, Mochlos (■§);
c, Cornelian, Central Crete (f); d, f, Cornelian (f); e, g, k, Green Jasper, k, Candia

district ; h, SlTEIA.

a perforation along the major axis containing carbonized remains of the string
by which the merchandise or document was secured (e. g. Fig. 200). The
three-sided shape of these sealings is itself a natural one for pinched clay
nodules to assume, which required more than one face for impressions and in-
cised characters. It corresponds moreover with the prevailing three-sided
type of the seals themselves.