Archaic
Bronze Bird-head Dipper
Bronze dipper with a long handle terminating in a bird-head; different elements hammered and cast; baggy body with a rounded base and everted rim; similar in shape to GR 1894,1101.233, but with a fixed vertical handle; part of the base of the vessel now missing and the metal is corroded. Dimensions: Height: 33 centimetres Object Type: dipper Techniques: cast; hammered
Classification
- Object type
- Metal vessel
- Motif
- Bird
- Material
- MetalCopper and bronze
- Period
- probablyIron AgeCypro-Archaic
- Date
- 750 - 475 BC
- Findspot
- Amathus
Also recorded as
A museum record
British Museum, 1894,1101.234 (“dipper”)From Amathus, BM Tomb 84
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