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Bronze Lamp-stand Top, Archaic II Cypriot tool
Bronze Lamp-stand Top, Archaic II Cypriot, c. 700–480 BC. British Museum, 1896,0201.306.CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

Archaic II

Bronze Lamp-stand Top

Upper part of the top of a bronze lamp-stand or incense burning stand; shallow socket with incised parallel lines on top and bottom from which rise three elongated voluted stems joined by a ring. Dimensions: Diameter: 4.40 centimetres ring ; Diameter: 3.20 centimetres socket ; Height: 16 centimetres whole ; Width: 10.10 centimetres whole Object Type: lamp-stand; incense-burner Techniques: cast; incised

Classification

Object type
Unclassified
Material
MetalCopper and bronze
Period
probablyIron AgeCypro-Archaic
Date
700 - 480 BC
Findspot
Kourion

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Collection

British Museum

Provenance

  • Kourion

Identifiers

Accession no.
1896,0201.306, British Museum · Museum record
Report entry
Kourion-Ayios Ermoyenis, BM Tomb 83, no. 8Murray et al. 1900, p. 84

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