Weight

MS820C

From: Italy | Etruria | Narce

Curatorial Section: Mediterranean

Object Number MS820C
Current Location Collections Storage
Culture Faliscan | Etruscan
Provenience Italy | Etruria | Narce
Locus Tomb 71M
Section Mediterranean
Materials Terracotta
Description

One of three clay weights. One is mended with a small clay plug where the clay had cracked open. Found among the charred bones in the burial urn in 1936. All three have crosses incised on either end; perhaps a thread was wound in the grooves of the incised cross, and thus the weight was held straight. That these objects are weights, not spools, is probable because similar specimens have a central perforation.

Length 5.3 cm
Credit Line Purchased from Francesco Mancinelli-Scotti, 1896

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