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EGYPTIAN SPINNING WHORL 3RD-7TH CENTURY AD - The History Gift Store
EGYPTIAN SPINNING WHORL 3RD-7TH CENTURY AD - The History Gift Store
EGYPTIAN SPINNING WHORL 3RD-7TH CENTURY AD - The History Gift Store
EGYPTIAN SPINNING WHORL 3RD-7TH CENTURY AD - The History Gift Store

EGYPTIAN SPINNING WHORL 3RD-7TH CENTURY AD

$65.00

Coptic Period. Large example of stone or terra cotta, over 1 ½” (1.58”). Bun form with decorative line work incised which suggests stone rather than terra cotta. Originally mounted with a long rod. Raw fiber was bunched on a distaff and drawn by hand into a thread connected to the whorl staff which wound it into string or thread, subsequently stored on the staff.

Item ID: B5003
Left Ethnographic

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EGYPTIAN SPINNING WHORL 3RD-7TH CENTURY AD

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