Strip
MS4746C
From: Greece | Crete | Gournia
Curatorial Section: Mediterranean
| Object Number | MS4746C |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Culture | Minoan |
| Provenience | Greece | Crete | Gournia |
| Period | Early Minoan | Middle Minoan | Late Minoan |
| Section | Mediterranean |
| Materials | Bronze |
| Description | Strips; bent or farsted; broken at the ends; trectangular cross sections with opposed, rounded edges. Comments: EM-LM II. Perhaps raw material from a metalsmith's workshop? Some of the needles and pins could have been forged from strips like these. An analysis of one of the strips was made by optical-emission spectometry (Betancourt, Wheeler, Madden, and Muhly 1978: 8), showing that it is lmost pure copper. Bibliography: Bentancourt, Wheeler, Madden, and Muhly 1978: 8. |
| Length | 6.5 cm |
| Thickness | 0.5 cm |
| Credit Line | Gift of the Candia Museum (Herakleion Archaeological Museum); H. B. Hawes, 1905 |
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