Shell rings with bitumen inlay from the Uluburun shipwreck

Classification

bracelet

Culture

Mesopotamian

Dimensions

diameter: 2.1–2.5 cm, thickness: 0.3–0.5 cm

Date

late 14th century B.C.

Period

Levantine Late Bronze Age (1550–1200)

Material

bitumen ; gastropod seashell

Iconography

circle motif ; rectangle motif ; triangle motif

Production place

Mesopotamia

Findspot

Mediterranean Sea ; Uluburun

Present location

Bodrum, Museum of Underwater Archaeology

Inventory

14.6.98, 16.19.90, 22.8.96, 26.19.90, 9.6.98, 8.13.93, etc.

ID

Per-2584

References

Pulak 2005, 84; Pulak 2008, 326–327, fig. 196

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This record is subject to revision due to ongoing research.