Pozzuoli / spindle with whorl / Bone (Unidentified) / Paint
About this Item
Record Details
- Object Identifier
- 0000.00.1501
- Object Name
- spindle with whorl
- Lot
- Dennison, Walter
- Collections
- Kelsey Permanent Artifact Collections
- Object Type
- Spindle whorls
- Length
- 10;
- Width
- ;
- Height
- ;
- Thickness
- ;
- Weight
- ;11.31 g
- Pierced
- no
- Inscribed
- no
- Full Artifact Description
- Spindle and whorl of bone (or ivory). Spindle is smoothly finished and has a V-shaped gouge in the handle similar to a crochet hook. The whorl is a flat, round disk with concentric circles engraved on both sides. Spindle broken at tip; chips in edges of whorl. Miscellaneous black paint in circle decorations and patch of red paint on handle.
- Verbatim Provenance
- Italy
- Verbatim Site
- Pozzuoli
- Production Site
- site
- Countermark
- no
- Exhibition Title
- The Art of the Ancient Weaver: Textiles from Egypt (4th-12th Century A.D.)
- Animals in the Kelsey: An Undergraduate Exhibit of Animals in the Ancient World
- Exhibition Curator
- van Rosevelt, Ann Taylor
- Rosenberg, Amy
- Haidler, Maria
- Bace, Jill
- Alcock, Susan
- Publication Title
- The Art of the Ancient Weaver: Textiles from Egypt (4th-12th Centuries A.D.)
- Publication Year
- 1980
- Class Title
- Great Books
- Love in the Ancient World
- Pompeii
- Pompeii (W2019)
- Pompeii (W2023)
- Class Instructor
- Rabinowitz, Adam
- Stone, David
- Class Department
- Classics
- CLARCH
- Class Number
- 191
- 389
- Class Year
- 2003
- 2010
- 2017
- 2019
- 2023
- Class Semester
- Fall
- Winter
- Type Category
- Artifact
Technical Details
- Record
- 0000.00.1501
- Link to this Item
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https://quod.lib.umich.edu/k/kelsey/x-0000.00.1501/dsc_8423.jpg
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- Full citation
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"Pozzuoli; spindle with whorl; Bone (Unidentified); Paint." In the digital collection Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Art & Artifact Collection. https://quod.lib.umich.edu/k/kelsey/x-0000.00.1501/dsc_8423.jpg. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 20, 2024.
