Ivory Carved Box

Ivory Carved Box

Description:

Ivory cylindrical box; body and base carved from a single piece of ivory; no lid; thick band at either end carved with fine double horizontal bands along edges.


Dimensions: Diameter: 6 centimetres; Height: 8.10 centimetres


Object Type: box


Techniques: carved

Period:

Late Bronze Age III

Date:

1350 - 1050 BC

Collection:

British Museum

Provenance:

Enkomi

Accession Number:

1897,0401.851