Carved Ivory Box Lid

Carved Ivory Box Lid

Description:

Ivory box lid; circular, stepped to a smaller base; two opposing sets of three holes drilled into the side; decorated with a carved rosette with eight petals and a drilled hole in the centre, surrounded by concentric bands of double semicircles and dots, vertical curves, and single semicircles and dots; one edge damaged.


Dimensions: Diameter: 3.90 centimetres; Height: 0.80 centimetres


Object Type: box


Techniques: carved; drilled

Period:

Late Bronze Age III

Date:

1340 - 1050 BC

Collection:

British Museum

Provenance:

Enkomi

Accession Number:

1897,0401.853