Copper toggle pin

Details

• Title

  Copper toggle pin

• Associated place

  Europe › Cyprus › Kyrenia › Vasileia › Vasileia (tomb 1) (place of excavation)

• Date

  Early Bronze Age (Early Cypriot) Philia phase (c. 2500 - c. 2400/2300 BC)

• Material and technique

  copper, pure

• Object type

  miscellaneous equipment › fastener › toggle

• Dimensions

  without bend considered 14.2 cm (length)
  of ornament below head 1 cm (diameter)
  12.12 g (weight)
  eyelet 0.5 cm (width)
  max at base 0.5 cm (diameter)

• No. of items

  1

• Credit line

  Presented by the Sidney University excavation at Vasileia in 1955.

• Museum location

  not on display

• Museum department

  Antiquities

• Accession no.

  AN1957.28

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