Spindle-whorl

Details

• Title

  Spindle-whorl

• Associated place

  Africa › Egypt (no further provenance) (find spot)

• Date

  Byzantine Period (Egypt) (AD 395 - 641)

• Material and technique

  bone

• Object type

  component › spindle-whorl

• Dimensions

  2.3 cm (diameter)
  0.8 cm (height)

• No. of items

  1

• Credit line

  Presented by Professor Francis Llewellyn Griffith, 1925.

• Museum location

  First floor | Gallery 30 | Mediterranean World

• Museum department

  Antiquities

• Accession no.

  AN1925.634.b

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