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Basalt mortar or plate, Late Bronze Age II Cypriot
Basalt mortar or plate, Late Bronze Age II Cypriot, c. 1600–1050 BC. Metropolitan Museum of Art, 74.51.5041.Open Access by the MET

Late Bronze Age II

Basalt mortar or plate

The mortar has a ring foot and an in-curving lip. H. 1 1/4 x D. 6 7/8 in. (3.2 x 17.5 cm)

Classification

Object type
Stone vessel
Shape
Dish and plate
Material
StoneAndesite and diabase
Period
Bronze AgeLate Cypriot (Late Bronze Age)
Date
1600 - 1050 BC
Place of production
Cyprus

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Accession No.

74.51.5041

Provenance

  • From Cyprus

References

  • Myres, John L. 1914. Handbook of the Cesnola Collection of Antiquities from Cyprus. no. 1526, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.Hermary, Antoine and Joan R. Mertens. 2013. The Cesnola Collection of Cypriot Art : Stone Sculpture. no. 613, p. 410, Online Publication, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

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