Geometric
Ground Stone Dish
Stone dish or shallow mortar with four projecting lugs; ground; shallow body on a slighrly raised disc base. Dimensions: Diameter: 13.80 centimetres Object Type: dish; mortar Techniques: ground
Classification
- Object type
- Stone vessel
- Shape
- Dish and plate
- Material
- Stone
- Findspot
- Amathus
- Date
- 1050 - 475 BC
Also recorded as
A museum record
British Museum, 1894,1101.552 (“dish (?); mortar (?)”)From Amathus, BM Tomb 291
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