button(?);
spindle-whorl
- Museum number
- 2010,5001.24
- Description
-
Bone dome-shaped bead or spindle whorl, decorated with lathe-turned (?) incisions on the flat side; also incision around the perforation at the top; polished.
- Production date
- 50BC-300
- Dimensions
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Diameter: 2.10 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- See D. Bailey, 'Lamps in the Victoria & Albert Museum', Opuscula Atheniensia VI (1965), 5-13 for details of the Hake-Kitchener excavations.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1980 (?)
- Department
- Greek and Roman
- Registration number
- 2010,5001.24
- Additional IDs
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Previous owner/ex-collection number: 422C-1883 (V&A number)