ingot

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Object Type
Museum number: 1897,0401.1535
Description: Copper oxhide-shaped ingot; mark comprising a semi-circle enclosing a horizontal line with two intersecting perpendicular lines to one end impressed on surface towards one edge.
Cultures/periods
Production date: 1200BC-1050BC
Production place: Made in: Cyprus
Excavator/field collector
Findspot: Excavated/Findspot: Enkomi (foundry hoard)
Materials
Technique: cast; impressed
Dimensions: Length: 70.50 centimetres; Weight: 36.92 kilograms; Thickness: 5.20 centimetres; Width: 41.50 centimetres
$Inscriptions
Curator's comments: Sampled and elemental analyses undertaken by Scientific Research.
Bibliographic references: Bronze / Catalogue of the Bronzes in the British Museum. Greek, Roman & Etruscan. (113); Catling 1964 / Cypriot Bronzework in the Mycenaean World (P267, No.1); Murray, Smith and Walters 1900 / Excavations in Cyprus (p. 15,17, Fig. 25); Muhly, Maddin & Wheeler 1980 / Late Bronze Age copper smelting in Cyprus (Pp. 84-99); Crewe 2009 / Enkomi (F.85)
Location: On display (G72/dc17)
Acquisition name
Funder name
Acquisition date: 1897
Department: Greek and Roman
Registration number: 1897,0401.1535
Conservation

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