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Black Stone Mortar, Late Bronze Age I Cypriot tool
Black Stone Mortar, Late Bronze Age I Cypriot, c. 1650–1050 BC. British Museum, 1896,0201.22.CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

Late Bronze Age I

Black Stone Mortar

Small black stone mortar; ground and polished; plain, shallow convex bowl, slightly carinated in the bottom half, with flattened base; the uneven interior surface of the mortar is suggestive of use-wear; edges chipped, interior cracked. Dimensions: Diameter: 10.60 centimetres Object Type: mortar Techniques: ground; polished

Classification

Object type
Tool
Material
Stone
Period
probablyBronze AgeLate Cypriot (Late Bronze Age)
Date
1650 - 1050 BC
Findspot
Episkopi-Bamboula

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Collection

British Museum

Provenance

  • Episkopi-Bamboula

Identifiers

Accession no.
1896,0201.22, British Museum

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