Object photograph·C00128·1927–1931

Bronze Age Gold and Silver (L.403.1)

Embossed metal sheet with a face and ridged headdress, from Lapithos Kastros tombs — Photograph: Swedish Cyprus Expedition, 1927–31. Medelhavsmuseet, Stockholm, C00128. Public domain (CC0).

Description

A thin, embossed metal sheet photographed against a dark background. It shows a face with eyes, a raised nose and mouth, and a headdress or hair rendered as radiating vertical ridges, with ridged locks falling down both sides. The sheet is torn and cracked at the edges and across the surface, with pieces missing along the top and bottom.

English, translated from the Swedish record

Bronze Age Gold and Silver, L.403.1.

Swedish, as on the record

Föremålsbild, fynd från Svenska cypernexpeditionen. Bronze Age Gold and Silver. L.403.1

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