A guide to the exhibition illustrating Greek and Roman life (1920)
British Museum. Dept. of Greek and Roman Antiquities · London, British Museum · leaf 155
arn had been twistedit was wound round the body ofthe spindle and hitched into ahook at its upper end (see figs. 171,173), to prevent it from unwinding.The twisting process was thenrecommenced. An impressivedescription of the ancient spindleis given by Plato in the vision ofEr at the end of the… … Fig. 171.-(No. 421). -Woman SpinningHt. of Vase 8f in.
Civilization, Greek and Roman · Classical antiquities
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