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The Corpus of Minoan and Mycenaean Seals (CMS) has been published exclusively in a printed version since being established in 1958. The project’s aim is the scholarly publication of every preserved seal and clay cast from the Aegean Bronze Age. Most of the Corpus should be digitized, updated and available on the internet for free before the project ends in 2011. The project was conducted in cooperation with the Academy of Sciences and Literature in Mainz and the Academic Workplace Corpus of Minonan and Mycenaean Seals" in Marburg under the scientific supervision of the Commission for Archaeology of the Mainz Academy. Volume CMS 2.7 publishes impressions from 262 different seal faces that were stamped on clay sealings found at Kato Zakros. The majority of the sealings (559) were discovered in 1901 during the excavations of D. G. Hogarth in Room VII of House A. Five pieces came to light in 1963 during the excavations of Nikolaos Platon in the palace of Zakros. All the sealings originate from the LM IB destruction horizon of the Neopalatial town. Most of the clay sealings are housed in the Archaeological Museum of Heraklion, with a smaller number kept in the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford, the Archaeological Museum of Florence, and the Pigorini Museum in Rome."