Massimo Perna

AN INSCRIBED BRONZE BOWL FROM CYPRUS IN THE ZINTILIS COLLECTION

The Zintilis collection in Nicosia contains a shallow, almost hemispherical bronze bowl hammered out of a single sheet of metal, which bears the number Z 730 (Fig. la-b). The undecorated hemispherical bronze bowl is of the most common Cypriot metal shape from the end of the Late Bronze Age to the Early Iron Age and has a very long life from Late Cypriot to Cyproarchaic times, from ca. 1400 up to 500 B.C. There also exist some examples in silver. This is a very simple shape which is typical , among grave goods, but also exists in settlements.