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Fabric Category Impasto
Object Type Textile Related::Spindle Whorl
Year Excavated 2015
Object Type (notes) Spindle Whorl Fragment
Size Max. pres. diameter: 0.045 m, max. pres. height: 0.038 m, max. pres. thickness: 0.020 m, max. pres. diameter of internal hole: 0.007 m
Condition Approximately half of a large spindle whorl fragment that preserves roughly half of the bored hole in the center. Surfaces are pitted, worn, and very slightly encrusted. All breaks are ancient. There is a large chip missing from the top of the spindle whorl.
Fabric Description Impasto
Munsell Color 5YR 2.5/1 Black; 5YR 6/1 Gray
Description An undecorated spindle whorl fragment with a smooth exterior surface, and ancient breaks.
Legacy Database Artifact ID 20150007
Year Cataloged 2015
Page 67
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Object Master Grid
EW (x) NS (y) Depth (z) Elev. (z)
94.18 -53.62 24.88
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Catalog ID Note
  • 20150007
  • 2015007
Conservation Treatment Notes
  • removed soil w/ cocktail stick; drybrushed; brushed & swabbed w/ 50:50 alcohol:tap water
  • removed soil w/ cocktail stick, dental pick; drybrushed
Conservation Action cleaned
Conservation Material
Conservation Treatment Date
  • 2015-07-02
  • 2015-08-01
Conservation Treatment Year 2015
Conservation People
  • Steven Miller
  • Elizabeth Frost
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Contributor
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Cara L. Polsini info
Vocabulary: Murlo
Subject
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Coverage
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Iron age info
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Open Context References: Iron age hub
Temporal Coverage
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Creator
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Anthony Tuck info
Vocabulary: Murlo
Suggested Citation

Cara L. Polsini. (2017) "PC 20150007 from Europe/Italy/Poggio Civitate/Tesoro/Tesoro 62/2015, ID:697/Locus 16". In Murlo. Anthony Tuck (Ed). Released: 2017-10-04. Open Context. <https://opencontext.org/subjects/8cb06ef1-4ac5-43bc-9284-2facaaf958fe> ARK (Archive): https://n2t.net/ark:/28722/r2p24/pc_20150007

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