Object photograph·Csn1001·1927–1931

Stone spindle whorl (L.413.2, L.413.4)

Ink drawings of seven stone spindle whorls from Lapithos, Kastros tombs, shown in side view — Photograph: Swedish Cyprus Expedition, 1927–31. Medelhavsmuseet, Stockholm, Csn1001. Public domain (CC0).

Description

Ink drawings of seven spindle whorls on two cards, shown from the side with the round holes at the top visible. Shapes range from tapering cones to rounded barrels, some with a ridge around the middle. Decoration includes ring-and-dot motifs, rows of small circles and fine horizontal hatching for shading, and handwritten blue notes run along the bottom edge.

English, translated from the Swedish record

Stone, L.413.2 L.413.4 (A.J. 2765 a) B.A. L.406.96 J.500 Atlas III. PI.exiv.3 Vol.IV:2

Swedish, as on the record

Fynd från Svenska cypernexpeditionen. Stone, L.413.2 L.413.4 (A.J. 2765 a) B.A. L.406.96 J.500 Atlas III. PI.exiv.3 Vol.IV:2

Type: Object photograph
Number: Csn1001
Date: 1927–1931 (not dated individually: the span of the collection)
Find context: 1927–28 (Lapithos, Kastros (necropolis, Tombs 401-429): 18 November to 10 December 1927, and 14 March to early April 1928)
Sites: Lapithos, Lapithos-Kastros, Idalion (probably)
Excavations: Lapithos: the Swedish Cyprus Expedition, Idalion: the Swedish Cyprus Expedition (probably)
Tombs: Lapithos-Kastros, SCE Tomb 406, Lapithos-Kastros, SCE Tomb 413
Objects shown: L. 413:002 (spindle whorl), L. 413:004 (spindle whorl)
Cited in: The Swedish Cyprus Expedition, Vol. IV Part 2: The Cypro-Geometric, Cypro-Archaic and Cypro-Classical Periods
Materials: black-and-white print
Keywords: drawing, decoration, sketch
Held by: Medelhavsmuseet, Stockholm
Licence: Public domain (CC0) (our English text: CC BY 4.0)

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Photographs: Swedish Cyprus Expedition, Medelhavsmuseet, Stockholm (CC0)