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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