vessel-fitting
- Museum number
- 1876,0909.122
- Description
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Bronze loop handle ('omega-shaped' handle) attached to vessel-fitting; cast; metal corroded.
- Production date
- 750 BC-475 BC
- Dimensions
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Height: 9.50 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- See Matthäus 1985, 128-134 for intact vessels - usually large shallow bowls with rounded bottoms - with this kind of handle. In a later publication, he describes this as a handle attachment with finials in the form of stylised human hands (2001, C43). This kind of handle belongs to a widely distributed group found in Egypt, the Near East, Cyprus, Crete and the Aegean, Sardinia, Italy and the Iberian peninsula throughout the earlier part of the first millennium BC (Matthäus 2001, C1-C76 and passim).
Bibliography:
Matthäus H. 2001, 'Studies on the interrelationships of Cyprus and Italy during the 11th to 9th centuries B.C.' in V. Karageorghis and L. Bonfante (eds), Italy and Cyrus in antiquity, 1500-450 BC (Nicosia: Costakis and Leto Severis Foundation), 153-214.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1876
- Department
- Greek and Roman
- Registration number
- 1876,0909.122
