Arsenical Copper Open Lamp, Late Bronze Age III Cypriot tool — Arsenical Copper Open Lamp, Late Bronze Age III Cypriot, c. 1340–1050 BC. British Museum, 1897,0401.1071.CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

Late Bronze Age III

Arsenical Copper Open Lamp

Arsenical copper open lamp; cast flat and raised by hammering; narrow flat handle, rectangular in section with rounded end; handle widens towards body; body roughly square with tapering rounded base; square shoulders either side of handle edge; one side edge concave, one open; front edge, opposite handle, pinched to form wick-rest; this is the only lamp of this type known. The composition of the metal is 97.5% copper; 0.15% lead; 0.3% tin; 1.0% arsenic. Dimensions: Height: 5.20 centimetres; Length: 23.20 centimetres; Width: 16.80 centimetres Object Type: lamp Techniques: cast; hammered; pinched

Classification

Object type: Lamp
Material: MetalCopper and bronze
Period: probablyBronze AgeLate Cypriot (Late Bronze Age)
Date: 1340 - 1050 BC
Findspot: Enkomi

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Accession No.

1897,0401.1071

Collection

Provenance

Enkomi

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