Terracotta Plummet, loom weight

Details

• Title

  Terracotta Plummet, loom weight

• Associated place

  Europe › Cyprus › Famagusta › Kalopsida › Kalopsida (settlement site) (place of excavation)

• Date

  Middle Bronze Age (Middle Cypriot Period) (c. 2000 - c. 1650 BC)

• Material and technique

  ceramic

• Object type

  instrument › scientific instrument › measure › plumb-bob

• Dimensions

  11 cm (height)
  6.75 cm (width)
  5.75 cm (depth)

• No. of items

  1

• Credit line

  Presented by the Cyprus Exploration Fund, from excavations by John Linton Myres in 1894.

• Museum location

  not on display

• Museum department

  Antiquities

• Accession no.

  AN1896-1908.C.134

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