6.6: Bone
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The evidence for the use of bone as a support for writing is limited to a few seals. With one excep- tion the seals found at Archanes are made of bone (Olivier and Godart 1996: #202, #252, #315; Sakellarakis and Sapouna-Sakellaraki 1997: 326–330). The six seals with script from Archanes were found in Burial Building 3, Burial Building 6, and Burial Building 7, which date to the Middle Minoan IA period ( c. 2000–1900 bc). The largest has the form of three superimposed cubes, giving 14 sealing surfaces, of which two bore writing ( Figure 3 ).