awl; chisel

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Object Type: awl; chisel
Museum number: 1898,1020.1
Description: Bronze awl or small chisel (handle missing); probably cast in an open mould; shaft of square-section, tapering toeards a point on each end; surface covered with slag.
Cultures/periods: Middle Cypriot; Late Cypriot I (or later)
Production date: 1900 BC-1550 BC (probably)
Production place: Made in: Cyprus
Excavator/field collector
Findspot: Excavated/Findspot: Klavdia, tomb(?)
Materials
Type series
Technique
Dimensions: Length: 12.20 centimetres
Curator's comments: This type has a long history of use in the Middle Cypriot period but becomes rare by LC I. Catling included this example in his LC group, so may be later in his opinion.
Bibliographic references: Bronze / Catalogue of the Bronzes in the British Museum. Greek, Roman & Etruscan. (3203); Malmgren 2003 / Klavdhia-Tremithos. A Middle and Late Cypriote Bronze Age site. (no. 129, p. 54); Catling 1964 / Cypriot Bronzework in the Mycenaean World (p. 97:L2, fig 10.7); Kiely 2011d / Klavdia-Tremithos: A Bronze Age community in south-east Cyprus (M.1)
Location: Not on display
Acquisition name
Acquisition date: 1898
Department: Greek and Roman
Registration number: 1898,1020.1

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