cite as: https://uremuseum.org/record/13.10.6
Accession_Number | 13.10.6 |
Shape | Handle |
Shape_description | Flat bronze heart-shape piece, flaring at the pointed end, with a spool-shaped element (reel-shaped, according to Catling, as recorded in the Ure archives), horizontally arranged and attached at the centre of the upper part; Each end of the spool comprises a flat disk, while at the centre the surface is curved and narrower, so that a vertical space is revealed between the heart and the spool. |
Material | Bronze |
Fabric | Cypriote |
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Munsell_color | |
Decoration | |
Inscriptions | |
Condition | Single piece, perhaps broken off at the bottom (flaring end of the 'heart'). The shiny blackish-brown surface has acquired a green patina in patches. |
Technique/Style | |
Provenance | Salamis, Cyprus |
Period | |
Date | 9 c. |
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Artist | |
Attribution | |
Image | |
Comparanda | For the use of the reel (pierced, with rings attached) see H. Matthäus, Metallgefässe und Gefässuntersätze der Bronzezeit, der geometrischen und archaischen Periode auf Cypern (Munich pl. 26 no. 373 and pl. 47.nos. 498 (Tamassos) and 499. |
Bibliography | |
Archive_Ref | reference 1 reference 2 |
Beazley_DB | |
Height | 7.2 |
Diameters | Spool: max. diam. 3.6; min. diam. 2.2; 'hole' between 'spool' and 'heart' 0.6. |
Handle_height | |
Other_dims. | W. 6.5; th. 'heart' 0.4-0.6 |
Location | Household |
Edited_by | Alexandra; Kinsey; Amy; Joana Varela |
Date_edited | 17.08.2004; 09.01.2006; 20.07.2009; 05.04.2017 |