Sphinx-shaped weight from the Uluburun shipwreck

Classification

weight

Culture

Canaanite ; Egyptian (culture)

Dimensions

length: 5.6 cm, height: 2.7 cm, weight: 80.7 g

Date

late 14th century B.C.

Period

Levantine Late Bronze Age (1550–1200)

Material

bronze

Iconography

sphinx

Production place

Levant?; Cyprus?; Egypt?

Findspot

Mediterranean Sea ; Uluburun

Present location

Bodrum, Museum of Underwater Archaeology

Inventory

55.24.86

ID

Per-7073

References

Pulak 2005, 87–88, fig. 43; Yalçin–Pulak–Slotta 2005, 616, cat. no. 156; Pulak 2008, 369–370, cat. no. 235a

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This record is subject to revision due to ongoing research.