- KE 1896 (Late Classical-Early Hellenistic Conical Loom Weight) [permalink] [next] [show more links]
- Type
- Inventoried Object
- Logical part of
- Chicago/Indiana/Vanderbilt Excavations Inventoried Objects
- Subject number
- Mi 517
- Typological identification
- Loom Weight
- Comparanda
- cf. CorinthXII, pp. 154, 167, no. 1142, fig. 25, pl. 75 (G. R. Davidson; dated “400-350 B.C.“(?))
- Description
- Conical loom weight tapering at inflection near bottom; slightly asymmetrical. Flat bottom. Small hole pierces through wall near top. Shallow stamp at inflection, impressed from gemstone but incompletely to left and below: oval around relief (probably) of satyr standing right.
- Preservation comment
- Intact but large chip in one lower side. Slight, somewhat extensive abrasion with minor flaking and pitting; worn breaks; scattered specks of encrustation.
- Diameter
- 0.0657
- Height
- 0.091
- Weight (kg)
- 0.255
- Belongs to Historical Period
- Early Hellenistic (Historical Period)
- Belongs to Historical Period
- Late Classical (Historical Period)
- Material
- Ceramic (Material)
- Has visual motif (depicts)
- Mythological Animal (Visual Motif)
- Photograph
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- Photograph
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- Photograph
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“KE 1896 (Late Classical-Early Hellenistic Conical Loom Weight).” In Kenchreai Archaeological Archive, edited by J.L. Rife and S. Heath. The American Excavations at Kenchreai, 2013-2024. <http://kenchreai.org/ke/ke1896>
