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Bronze Laver (Basin), Late Bronze Age III Cypriot basin and tray
Bronze Laver (Basin), Late Bronze Age III Cypriot, c. 1340–1050 BC. British Museum, 1897,0401.1060.CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

Late Bronze Age III

Bronze Laver (Basin)

Bronze laver (basin); cast flat and raised by hammering; incurved rim with flat top; two vertical loop handles, cast separately and riveted to vessel below rim; two rivets with round raised heads on interior of each handle join; body curving to flat foot base; posisbly originally on a stand; the vessel is of a Minoan type but may have been made on Cyprus. Dimensions: Diameter: 31.70 centimetres; Height: 8 centimetres to rim ; Height: 11.40 centimetres total Object Type: basin Techniques: cast; riveted; hammered

Classification

Object type
Metal vessel
Shape
Basin and tray
Material
MetalCopper and bronze
Period
probablyBronze AgeLate Cypriot (Late Bronze Age)
Date
1340 - 1050 BC
Findspot
Enkomi

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Collection

British Museum

Provenance

  • Enkomi

Identifiers

Accession no.
1897,0401.1060, British Museum · Museum record
Report entry
Enkomi, BM Tomb 66, no. 1897.4-1.1060Tatton-Brown 2003, p. 36

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