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A Mycenaean Bronze in the Cyprus Museum

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 December 2013

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Among the latest acquisitions of the Cyprus Museum are seven pieces of bronze which, when put together, form the handles and circular rim of a large vessel.

Their history is as follows. They were found (together with a gold enamelled sceptre and two bronze tripods, a description of which I hope to give later) in a field near the Church of Hagios Armenis, at the village of Episkopi, the site of the ancient Curium. All the objects together were sold to an Armenian merchant of Limassol and were seized by the police of Larnaca in December, 1903, when they were about to be secretly exported from the Island. They have been kept at the Custom House at Larnaca till lately when they were transferred to my custody and deposited in the Cyprus Museum.

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Copyright © The Council, British School at Athens 1912

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References

page 96 note 1 gem, Vaphio : Eph. Arch. 1889, Pl. X, 35, cf. p. 169Google Scholar. Cesnola handles : Perrot-Chipiez, iii. Fig. 556; compare the small gold jug from Mycenae, Acropolis, Grave IV. (Schuchhardt, Schliemann's Excavations (Engl. Transl.), Fig. 243), and a bronze prochous from a tomb at Enkomi (Old Salamis), (B.M. Excavations in Cyprus, p. 16, Fig. 29, 1533).

page 96 note 2 Eph. Arch. 1887, Pl. X, 1.

page 96 note 3 Dussaud, , Les Civilisations préhelléniques, p. 243, Fig. 179Google Scholar.

page 96 note 4 Milchhoefer, , Anfänge der Kunst in Griechenland, pp. 55 and 68Google Scholar.

page 97 note 1 B.M. Excav. in Cyprus, p. 74, Fig. 128 from Curium; B.M. Cat. Vases, I, ii (C. 501).

page 97 note 2 Eph. Arch. 1888, Pl. VII, 1.

page 97 note 3 B.M. Excav. in Cyprus, Fig. 73, 968, and Fig. 74, 1149; B.M. Cat. Vases, I, ii (C. 413 and C. 377).