tripod stand

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Object Type
Museum number: 1897,0401.1516
Description: Bronze tripod stand; cast; composite ring soldered onto three composite legs; ring consists of wide central band with two smaller bands on either side, the upper of which is larger than the lower; central band decorated in low relief with a zig-zag pattern; each leg consists of three plain rods terminating in volutes at the top; between the legs, three outer struts run from the feet to the ring terminating in large pendant rings.
Cultures/periods: Late Cypriot IIC (? Late); Late Cypriot III (?)
Production date: 1250BC-1050BC
Production place: Made in: Cyprus
Excavator/field collector
Findspot: Excavated/Findspot: Enkomi, tomb 58
Materials
Technique: cast; hammered; soldered
Dimensions: Diameter: 11 centimetres (max); Diameter: 9.20 centimetres (ring); Height: 11.60 centimetres; Weight: 450 grammes
Bibliographic references: Bronze / Catalogue of the Bronzes in the British Museum. Greek, Roman & Etruscan. (62); Catling 1964 / Cypriot Bronzework in the Mycenaean World (P198, No.17, Pl 30:f); Matthäus 1985 / Metallgefäße und Gefäßuntersätze der Bronzezeit, der geometrischen und archaischen Periode auf Cypern (No. 677, p. 301 & pl. 90); Macnamara & Meeks 1987 / The metallurgical examination of four Late Cypriot III stands (p. 57, no. 1); Crewe 2009 / Enkomi (58.1)
Location: On display (G72/dc14)
Acquisition name
Funder name
Acquisition date: 1897
Department: Greek and Roman
Registration number: 1897,0401.1516
Additional IDs: Miscellaneous number: 1897,0401.997 (Also registered as)

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