Unornamented Spindle

1st century BCE-1st century CE (Roman) H: 5 3/4 in. (14.6 cm) Citation

This broken spindle is round in section and then tapers. It is stained brown; its preserved finial appears to have been carved freehand, not turned on a lathe.

Artifact

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12949
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object
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stage
normalized
provenance
provenance
Don Marcello Massarenti Collection, Rome [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1902, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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CC0
language
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en
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0
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Source image fields (2)
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sourceUrl https://purl.thewalters.org/art/71.632

Terms

Culture
Roman
Medium
bone

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