Late Bronze Age III
Ivory Carved Box
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
Classification
- Object type
- Box and container
- Decoration
- Carved
- Material
- Organic materialsIvory
- Period
- probablyBronze AgeLate Cypriot (Late Bronze Age)
- Date
- 1350 - 1050 BC
- Findspot
- Enkomi
Also recorded as
A find in the tomb register
Enkomi, BM Tomb 12, no. 851Cylindrical ivory box
A museum record
British Museum, 1897,0401.851 (“box”)From Enkomi, BM Tomb 12
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