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box(?)

Object Type
Museum number: 1899,1229.43
Description: Round ivory disc with a hole in the middle and engraved with a 12 petalled rosette; perhaps the lid of a circular box.
Cultures/periods
Production date: 1350BC-1200BC (circa)
Production place: Made in: Cyprus
Excavator/field collector: Excavated by: The British Museum; Excavated by: Francis Bertram Welch; Excavated by: Percy Christian
Findspot: Excavated/Findspot: Klavdia, Uncertain tomb
Materials
Technique
Dimensions: Diameter: 5.77 centimetres
Curator's comments: Welch's letter of 16 June 1899 mentions an ivory disc in what is now known as Tomb A5, the only intact deposit form the cemetery, but also records examples in other tombs. See SCE IV/1D, 551-4 for further examples of LBA ivory discs and boxes.
Bibliographic references: Malmgren 2003 / Klavdhia-Tremithos. A Middle and Late Cypriote Bronze Age site. (no.154, p. 57); Kiely 2011d / Klavdia-Tremithos: A Bronze Age community in south-east Cyprus (U.40)
Location: On display (G72/dc20)
Acquisition date: 1899
Department: Greek and Roman
Registration number: 1899,1229.43