Copper figurine of Astarte on an ingot

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Copper figurine of Astarte on an ingot (AN1971.888)

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Details

Title

Copper figurine of Astarte on an ingot
Associated place

Cyprus (find spot)

Enkomi (possible) (possible find spot)
Date

Late Bronze Age (Late Cypriot IIIA Period) (c. 1200 - c. 1125/1100 BC)
Material and technique

copper alloy
Object type

figurine
Dimensions

9.9 cm (height)
68.9 g (weight)
No. of items

1
Credit line

Purchased, 1971.
Museum location

Ground floor | Gallery 18 | Ancient Cyprus
Museum department

Antiquities
Accession no.

AN1971.888

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Further reading

Brown, A. C., and Catling, H.W., Ancient Cyprus (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 1986, second edition), 34-35, XIII

Brown, Christopher, Ashmolean: Britain's First Museum (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 2009), illus. p.44

Katherine Wodehouse (general editor), The Ashmolean Museum Crossing Cultures Crossing Time (Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford, 2014), p.51, illus. p.51

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