Terracotta spindle whorl - image 1

Middle Bronze Age II

Terracotta spindle whorl

Engraved decoration, filled with lime; around the body is a large zigzag made up of oblique lines with dots along one side and rows of short parallel strokes along the other; in the open spaces are small groups of parallel horizontal strokes; on the base is a ring of zigzag lines around a ring containing parallel strokes. This spindle-whorl may come from the northern coast of Cyprus (Lapithos or Vounous, or possibly Dhenia). (VK) H. 1 1/4 in. (3.2 cm)

Date

1900 - 1725 BC

Accession No.

74.51.914

Collection

Metropolitan Museum of Art

Provenance

  • From Cyprus

References

  • Myres, John L. 1914. Handbook of the Cesnola Collection of Antiquities from Cyprus. no. 142, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.Karageorghis, Vassos, Gloria Merker, and Joan R. Mertens. 2016. The Cesnola Collection of Cypriot Art : Terracottas. no. 48, pp. 34, 253, Online Publication, [CD-Rom 2004], New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.