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PC 16: Biconical spindle whorl. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)
Biconical spindle whorl
- Date
- Context: 9th to 6th c BC, Lydian
- Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
- T60.003
- Material
- Terracotta
- Object Type
- Weaving Equipment
- Site
- Sardis
- Sector
- PC
- Trench
- PC
- Locus
- PC Zone 3
- B-Grid Coordinates
- *89.5
- Findspot
- Zone 3 *89.50
- Description
Biconical spindle whorl of fired clay with hole through the center. Four groups of incised roughly concentric semicircles decorate the edges of the top of the spindle whorl. Tiny neat holes (Diam. 0.001) frame the incised semicircles, and three or four additional holes surround the central hole on the top side.
Found on tamped floor of Zone 3.
- Dimensions
- H. 0.025, Diam. 0.037, W. of hole through middle 0.008.
- Comments
- See Also
- Bibliography
- Author
- NHR