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- Title
AN AEGEAN MIRROR FROM HALA SULTAN TEKKE, CYPRUS.
- Authors
Feldbacher, Rainer; Alvarez, Laura E.; Miyauchi, Yuko; Lorentz, Kirsi; Fischer, Peter M.
- Abstract
Summary: This study deals with the results of the 2023 fieldwork at the extramural cemetery of the Late Bronze Age harbour city of Hala Sultan Tekke. One of the three excavated tombs in 2023 was the undisturbed Chamber Tomb XX, which is dated around 1300 BC. It contained a riveted bronze mirror, a rare type in Cyprus at that time, which is part of a mortuary context of four individuals out of a total of 17 individuals and 264 complete objects, many of them imported from a vast area, which includes the Mycenaean, Minoan, Egyptian and Levantine cultures. The current paper presents this mirror and associated contexts. As regards the provenance of the mirror, the Aegean is suggested as the area of manufacture, and more precisely Crete, suggesting potential evidence of direct contact between individuals from Crete and Hala Sultan Tekke.
- Subjects
CRETE (Greece); CYPRUS; TOMBS; MIRRORS; BRONZE Age
- Publication
Oxford Journal of Archaeology, 2024, Vol 43, Issue 2, p153
- ISSN
0262-5253
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/ojoa.12292