Accession No

1951.2038


Description

Rectangular fragment of fine-grained, greenish grey coloured stone, possibly slate. Front has a design carved in relief, comprising an engraved scale pattern in a deep oval hollow, with deeply incised lines and a narrow band of small parallel lines and zigzag lines adjacent to this. Back has a shallow hole drilled into the surface. Possibly used as a mould.


Place

Europe; Southern Europe; Cyprus; Skooteli; ?Toumba tou Skourou


Period

?Bronze Age


Source

Museum of Classical Archaeology [donor]; Fitzwilliam Museum [collector]; Stewart, James Rivers Barrington [excavator]


Department

Arch


Reference Numbers

1951.2038


Cultural Affliation


Material

Stone; Slate


Local Term


Measurements

17mm x 49mm


Events

Description (Labels & Markings)
Marking in pencil on back reads: 'SKOO TELI' or 'SKOU TELL'.
Event Date
Author: Lizzy Peneycad


Description (Physical description)
Catalogue card: 'Fragment of fine-grained ?slate, greenish grey in colour. Carved in relief. There is an engraved scale pattern in a deep hollow on one side and a hole on the back which seems to have been drilled.' And, in a later hand reads: 'A mould.'
Event Date 1951
Author: maa


Context (Acquisition Details)
Transferred from the Museum of Classical Archaeology to MAA in November 1951. It was likely originally owned by the Fitzwilliam Museum and part of the transfer of Cypriot material to the Museum of Classical Archaeology around 1938.
Event Date 11/1951
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)


Context (Analysis)
Both the Accession Register and the catalogue card give the findspot as 'Skooteli', however the database record had a note reading 'Found: Kyrenia T'. This is likely to be an error, possibly carried over from another record.
Event Date 5/3/2024
Author: maa


Context (Analysis)
The site where this object was collected, which is listed in the accession register as 'Skooteli', and marked on the object as possibly 'Skou Tell', might refer to the Bronze Age town of Toumba tou Skourou in northwest Cyprus. This site consists of a mudbrick mound that spans the 16th to 14th centuries BC, and thus could be described as a 'Tell'. This site name has therefore been added to the Place field of this record.
Event Date 8/3/2024
Author: Lizzy Peneycad


Description (Physical description)
Rectangular fragment of fine-grained, greenish grey coloured stone, possibly slate. Front has a design carved in relief, comprising an engraved scale pattern in a deep oval hollow, with deeply incised lines and a narrow band of small parallel lines and zigzag lines adjacent to this. Back has a shallow hole drilled into the surface. Possibly used as a mould.
Event Date 8/3/2024
Author: Lizzy Peneycad


FM:50290

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