ploughshare

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Object Type
Museum number: 1897,0401.1474
Description: Bronze ploughshare; cast and hammered; folded socket widens to flat, straight blade; end and folds of socket, edges and tip of blade damaged. Two Cypro-Minoan signs are incised on the inner surface.
Cultures/periods
Production date: 1200BC-1050BC
Production place: Made in: Cyprus
Excavator/field collector
Findspot: Excavated/Findspot: Enkomi (foundry hoard)
Materials
Technique: cast; hammered
Dimensions: Length: 18.60 centimetres (max); Thickness: 4.40 centimetres; Width: 7.10 centimetres
Curator's comments: Further details on the Foundry Hoard can be found in Catling 1964, 278-281 (though the present item is not illustrated), Matthäus 1985, 41-45 and in Catling's overview in the Ancient Cyprus in the British Museum ORC. The Cypro-Minoan inscription, previously overlooked, was first described and illustrated in Matthäus 1983 though was omitted from subsequent works on the script. Biibliography: Matthäus, H. 1983, 'Kypro-Minoische shriftmarken aus Enkomi', Kadmos XXII/2, 137-50.
Bibliographic references: Bronze / Catalogue of the Bronzes in the British Museum. Greek, Roman & Etruscan. (104.1); Catling 1964 / Cypriot Bronzework in the Mycenaean World (P80, No.b2); Crewe 2009 / Enkomi (F.47); Matthäus 1985 / Metallgefäße und Gefäßuntersätze der Bronzezeit, der geometrischen und archaischen Periode auf Cypern (p. 43 and pl. 124, no. 10)
Location: On display (G72/dc17)
Acquisition name
Funder name
Acquisition date: 1897
Department: Greek and Roman
Registration number: 1897,0401.1474

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