Lot 535
535
A GRAECO-CYPRIOT BRONZE ROD TRIPOD STAND
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A GRAECO-CYPRIOT BRONZE ROD TRIPOD STAND

LATE 2ND MILLENNIUM/EARLY 1ST MILLENNIUM B.C.

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A GRAECO-CYPRIOT BRONZE ROD TRIPOD STAND
LATE 2ND MILLENNIUM/EARLY 1ST MILLENNIUM B.C.
Comprising a relief frieze of double spiral decoration on the circular band with three projecting cloven hooves joined by rods with central loops, from one of which a bronze pendant hangs
4¾ in. (12 cm.) high and diam.
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Lot Essay

Cf. V. Karageorghis, Ancient Art from Cyprus: The Cesnola Collection, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 2000, pp. 60-61, nos. 96-97 for similar and for a discussion of these 13th-12th Century B.C. Cypriot tripods which were imitated in the Aegean during the early 1st millennium B.C.; also, A l'ombre de Babel, Brussels, 1995, p. 161, no. 340 for a related bronze stand from Lebanon or Syria.

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