Middle Bronze Age I
Copper tweezers
Copper tweezers Dimensions: 7.5cm (length)8.32g (weight)of hinge 0.5cm (width)blade max 1.3cm (width) Object Type: tool or implement > tweezers
Classification
- Object type
- Toilet object
- Material
- MetalCopper and bronze
- Findspot
- Nicosia-Leondari Vouno
- Date
- 2000 - 1650 BC
Collection
Provenance
- Nicosia, Nicosia, Nicosia-Eylenja, Leontari Vouno (tomb) (place of excavation)
Identifiers
- Accession no.
- AN1888.1317, Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology · Museum record
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