Fusion matrix

Item No.

Exhibit 444

Inventory No.

n.d.

Provenance

S’Urbale Nuragic Village, Teti – Vano M/N

Acquisition

Archaeological excavation 1984

Material

Litico

Measures

Thickness 2.60 cm; length 11.30 cm; width 4.80 cm

Conservation

Mutilated

Period

Nuragic

Dating

Final Bronze-Early Iron Age, (12th-8th cent. BCE).

The matrix, from Compartment M of the nuragic village of S’Urbale (Teti-NU), consists of two matching stone blocks bearing the negative of the object to be reproduced.

Inside the two parts, firmly bound to each other and sealed with clay, was poured molten bronze

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