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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).

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