Bronze Age
Handle in the form of a youth
H.: 5 x 3 1/4 in. (12.7 x 8.3 cm)
Classification
- Object type
- Fitting and inlay
- Motif
- Human figure
- Material
- probablyMetalCopper and bronze
- Place of production
- probablyCyprus
- Findspot
- Idalion
- Date
- 3900 BC - 100 AD
Accession No.
74.51.5681
Collection
Provenance
- From CyprusDali, Idalion
References
- Myres, John L. 1914. Handbook of the Cesnola Collection of Antiquities from Cyprus. no. 5012, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.Richter, Gisela M. A. 1915. Greek, Etruscan and Roman Bronzes. no. 66, pp. 45-46, New York: Gilliss Press.Richter, Gisela M. A. 1953. Handbook of the Greek Collection. pp. 68, 209, pl. 49a, Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University 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. 556, pp. 252-3, 376, München: Beck.
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