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A kind of find describes a group: pottery, inscriptions, coins. An object is one item with a record number, a holder and a date as published by its source. Object pages keep three things apart: what you see, what the record says, and where the object is now. A field the source did not give stays empty.
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3 objects Order: by the source's normalised date, earliest first; objects without a placeable range come last.
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A small terracotta tripod that the museum dates to about 1050-950 BCE, "Cypro-Geometric I". Two of its three legs carry human figures, and the museum links its decoration to bronze stands made on Cyprus at the very end of the Bronze Age.
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TerracottaH. 7 in. (17.8 cm); diameter 5 13/16 in. (14.7 cm)
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Object
A Cypriot vessel, a Phoenician inscription and a findspot nobody recorded: one object that teaches us to separate what is written on it from where it came from.
Object
A bronze lampstand 65.4 cm high, which the museum dates to the late 6th century BCE and assigns to Cypriot culture and the Archaic period. No findspot is given, and the record describes how this kind of object was used, not this lampstand.
Text frame in place of a photograph
BronzeH. 25 3/4 in. (65.4 cm)
The source has an openly licensed image; it is not included here yet
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