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Terracotta biconical spindle-whorl with flat top, Early Bronze Age I Cypriot tool
Terracotta biconical spindle-whorl with flat top, Early Bronze Age I Cypriot, c. 2500–2075 BC. Metropolitan Museum of Art, 74.51.940.Open Access by the MET

Early Bronze Age I

Terracotta biconical spindle-whorl with flat top

The whorl is chipped at one end. Two horizontal grooves at the carination divide the body into two registers. Engraved decoration, filled with lime; around the upper and lower registers of the body are groups of three oblique lines crossing one another, with three strokes in the intervals. On the chronology of this long-lived spindle-whorl type, see inv. no. 74.51.942. This example could be Early Cypriot I in date. (VK) H. 1 7/8 in. (4.8 cm)

Classification

Object type
Textile tool
Decoration
IncisedIncised and white-filled
Material
Clay
Period
Bronze AgeEarly Cypriot (Early Bronze Age)Early Cypriot I
Date
2500 - 2075 BC
Place of production
Cyprus

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Provenance

  • From Cyprus

References

Identifiers

Accession no.
74.51.940, Metropolitan Museum of Art
In catalogues
  • Myres 1914, no. 120
  • Karageorghis 2016, no. 46

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