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Unfired clay or ceramic spindle whorl
, 2021 Gatty Slip: Fragment, very much broken, of clay spindle whorl? found in Sibertswold Down, Kent. Formerly with the Faussett coll.
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, 2021 Mayer card: spindle whorl of lead.Described as 'spindle whorl' on original index card in Mayer Collection (see SCH Index ...
Helena Hamerow (11585575)
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, 2021 Spindle-whorl, diam. 3.5cm. Very well made hemispherical whorl, absolutely flat on the underside and smoothly domed. Made of very fine cream clay (cf. Sibertswold grave 83), probably unfired. Top decorated around central perforation by lightly incised
Helena Hamerow (11585575)
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SPINNING THE WHORL OF THE SPINDLE [PDF]
History of Philosophy Quarterly, 2020 AbstractMarsilio Ficino (1433–99) was greatly intrigued by the questions on free will raised by the myth of Er in Plato’s Republic. By focusing on his Argumentum in Platonis Respublicam, this article discusses Ficino’s interpretation of the myth in light of his view on the faculties of the soul—intellect, reason, the imagination, and the vegetative ...
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Spindle Whorls: their Symbolism in the Villanovan Cemetery of Quattro Fontanili, Veii
Current Swedish Archaeology, 1993 The hypothesis presented in this paper is that the apparently insignificant pottery spindle whorl is a symbol of transformation of death into new life by analogy with mankind's oldest abstract image, the circle, and with the important inventions of ...
Kristina Berggren
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Ceramic spindle whorl made from Samian ware
, 2021 Spindle whorl, made from base of Samian ware low pedestal bowl; diam. 4.5cm. Badly chipped.?
Helena Hamerow (11585575)
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SARMATIAN NECROPOLIS FROM MEDELENI (COM. PETREŞTI, UNGHENI DISTRICT, REPUBLIC OF MOLDOVA)
Journal of Ancient History and Archaeology, 2016 Medeleni sarmatian cemetery is located at the left side of the road Chișinău-Sculeni, about 1 km north of the river Prut and 1,3 km north-north-east of the Medeleni village.
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, 2021 Bone spindle whorl, diam. 3.3cm. Flat top, curved side, probably a flat underside, but here the bone has eroded, and there are only tiny fragments of the original undersurface left. Hole diam. 7mm. Decorated with four groups of punched ring-and-dot on
Helena Hamerow (11585575)
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, 2021 Spindle whorl, l. 4.2cm. Made of clay with fine to medium quartz or flint grits - some grog possibly, fired to pale grey brown shading to dark grey. Surface well smoothed and possibly burnished, but the whole has been treated in some way.
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