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HoB 644: Spindle whorl. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)
Spindle whorl
- Date
- Context: later 7th to mid-6th c BC, Lydian
- Museum
- Manisa, Archaeological and Ethnographic Museum
- Museum Inventory No.
- Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
- T68.002
- Material
- Terracotta
- Object Type
- Weaving Equipment
- Site
- Sardis
- Sector
- HoB
- Trench
- HoB
- Locus
- HoB Lydian I - Building D and Extension
- B-Grid Coordinates
- W9 - W14 / S106 - S110 *98.7 - 98.3
- Findspot
- W9-14 / S106-110 *98.70-98.30 ⁓ Building D
- Description
- Biconical shape. Single hole. Top and bottom painted. A single horizontal line encircling center of spindle whorl; above center, dotted square bar; below center, row of dots divided by triple lines.
- Dimensions
- H. 0.012, D. 0.022, Diam. of hole 0.002.
- Comments
- See Also
- Bibliography
- Author
- GGD