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Fabric Category Impasto
Object Type Textile Related::Spindle Whorl
Year Excavated
  • 2014
  • 2014
Decorative Technique Incised
Object Type (notes) Incised Spindle Whorl
Size Max pres. diameter: 0.021m; max. pres. height: 0.013m; max. pres. diameter of perforated hole: 0.005m
Condition Surfaces are pitted, worn, and encrusted. There are incised lines on the base and a possible sigla on the conical side.
Fabric Description Impasto
Description A truncated, conical shaped spindle whorl with a depression around the perforation of the base. There are three sets of incised lines around the rim of the base. Each set has 3 or 4 lines of varying length. There may have been a fourth set of lines but the rim edge is worn. On the rounded side of the spindle whorl there is a potential sigla of 1 vertical line that is crossed by 2 perpendicular lines. The vertical line is .009 m, the perpendicular line closest to the small end of the spindle whorl is .003 m, and the perpendicular line closest to the base is .005 m
Legacy Database Artifact ID 20140052
Year Cataloged 2014
Page 147
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Object Master Grid
EW (x) NS (y) Depth (z) Elev. (z)
91.25 -40.28 28.72
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Contributor
Vocabulary: DCMI Metadata Terms (Dublin Core Terms)
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 20140052 from Europe/Italy/Poggio Civitate/Tesoro/Tesoro 59/2014, ID:676/Locus 5". In Murlo. Anthony Tuck (Ed). Released: 2017-10-04. Open Context. <https://opencontext.org/subjects/e7ab0765-66a4-4b6d-a326-0699ba96b176> ARK (Archive): https://n2t.net/ark:/28722/r2p24/pc_20140052

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