bowl

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Object Type
Museum number: 1897,0401.300
Description: Silver hemispherical bowl; horizontal loop handle below rim with vertical protrusion creating 'wishbone' appearance, attached to vessel with sets of three rivets; row of engraved double circles on top of rim; hammered.
Cultures/periods: Late Helladic IIIA; Late Helladic IIIB
Production date: 1400BC-1200BC
Production place: Made in: Greece
Excavator/field collector
Findspot: Excavated/Findspot: Enkomi, tomb 66
Materials
Technique: hammered; riveted; engraved
Dimensions: Diameter: 21.20 centimetres (rim); Height: 8.50 centimetres; Weight: 453 grammes
Bibliographic references: Murray, Smith and Walters 1900 / Excavations in Cyprus (p.17-8, Fig 34); Crewe 2009 / Enkomi (66.138); Merrillees 1982 / Metal vases of Cypriot type from the 16th to 13th centuries B.C. (Cat. no. 10, pp. 239-241); Matthäus 1985 / Metallgefäße und Gefäßuntersätze der Bronzezeit, der geometrischen und archaischen Periode auf Cypern (Cat. no. 343, p. 121 and pl. 20,343)
Location: On display (G12/dc5)
Acquisition name
Funder name
Acquisition date: 1897
Department: Greek and Roman
Registration number: 1897,0401.300

Free entry