Carved Ivory Rosette Box Lid

Carved Ivory Rosette Box Lid

Description:

Ivory box lid; circular with a stepped profile; decorated on the broad face with a carved, double framed rosette with twelve petals and double encircled dot in the centre; part of the edge missing.


Dimensions: Diameter: 5 centimetres; Height: 0.80 centimetres


Object Type: box


Techniques: carved

Period:

Late Bronze Age III

Date:

1340 - 1050 BC

Collection:

British Museum

Provenance:

Enkomi

Accession Number:

1897,0401.1353