Terracotta biconical spindle-whorl with flat top - image 1

Early Bronze Age I

Terracotta biconical spindle-whorl with flat top

The whorl is chipped at one end. Two horizontal grooves at the carination divide the body into two registers. Engraved decoration, filled with lime; around the upper and lower registers of the body are groups of three oblique lines crossing one another, with three strokes in the intervals. On the chronology of this long-lived spindle-whorl type, see inv. no. 74.51.942. This example could be Early Cypriot I in date. (VK) H. 1 7/8 in. (4.8 cm)

Date

2500 - 2075 BC

Accession No.

74.51.940

Collection

Metropolitan Museum of Art

Provenance

  • From Cyprus

References

  • Myres, John L. 1914. Handbook of the Cesnola Collection of Antiquities from Cyprus. no. 120, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.Karageorghis, Vassos, Gloria Merker, and Joan R. Mertens. 2016. The Cesnola Collection of Cypriot Art : Terracottas. no. 46, pp. 34, 253, Online Publication, [CD-Rom 2004], New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.