A guide to the exhibition illustrating Greek and Roman life (1920)
British Museum. Dept. of Greek and Roman Antiquities · London, British Museum · leaf 156
e spindles (No. 423) are seen in theCase and are illustrated on either side of fig. 173. In the same 1 616 c, d. 144 GREEK AND ROMAN LIFE. figure are shown four ivory whorls from spindles (No. 424).Before the wool was placed upon the distaff it appears to havebeen rubbed, with a view to the… … Fig. 173.—Spindles and Whorls, Shuttle and Loomweight. 2:5. with little plausibility as covering-tiles. One, however, wasfound with a painted design which first gave the clue to its realuse (Fig. 174). One of these epinetra B 96 (No. 425) is exhibitedin this Case, together with a fragment of a…
Civilization, Greek and Roman · Classical antiquities
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