
Archaic II
Handle
Other: 3 11/16in. (9.4cm)
Classification
- Object type
- Fitting and inlay
- Material
- probablyMetalCopper and bronze
- Period
- probablyIron AgeCypro-Archaic
- Date
- 699 - 500 BC
- Place of production
- Cyprus
Accession No.
74.51.5450
Collection
Provenance
- From Cyprus
References
- Myres, John L. 1914. Handbook of the Cesnola Collection of Antiquities from Cyprus. no. 4909, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.Richter, Gisela M. A. 1915. Greek, Etruscan and Roman Bronzes. no. 698, pp. 243-44, New York: Gilliss Press.Matthäus, Hartmut. 1985. Metallgefässe und Gefässuntersätze der Bronzezeit, der geometrischen und archaischen Periode auf Cypern: mit einem Anhang der bronzezeitlichen Schwertfunde auf Cypern, Prähistorische Bronzefunde, Abteilung II Bd. 8. no. 358, pp. 128, 376, München: Beck.
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