Ivory Carved Rod - image 1

Late Bronze Age III

Ivory Carved Rod

Ivory rod; cylindrical, tapering slightly towards one end, then stepped to a narrow cylinder, now broken; a circular shaft has been drilled into the centre of the other end for approximately one third of the length; decorated with two carved horizontal lines and a cross-hatched band at the hollow end, framed by sets of four horizontal lines at the other. Dimensions: Diameter: 1 centimetres; Length: 7.80 centimetres max Object Type: rod Techniques: carved; drilled

Date

1340 - 1050 BC

Accession No.

1897,0401.1373

Collection

British Museum

Provenance

  • Enkomi