
Late Bronze Age II
Alabaster Jar
jar made from alabaster, patterns carved into material
Classification
- Object type
- Stone vessel
- Shape
- Jar
- Decoration
- Carved
- Material
- StoneCalcite (alabaster)
- Period
- probablyBronze AgeLate Cypriot (Late Bronze Age)
- Date
- 1500 - 1050 BC
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