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© Museu d'Arqueologia de Catalunya - Barcelona
Omeka ID 2568
Tossal de les Tenalles
Protohistory and Iberian world

Iberian whorl

MAC BCN-029164

Object type
whorl
Production date
-400 / -200
Fabric
-
Museum
Museu d'Arqueologia de Catalunya - Barcelona
Culture
Protohistory and Iberian world
Discovery location
Tossal de les Tenalles
Materials
terracotta
Township
Sidamon (Europa, Espanya, Catalunya, Lleida, Pla d'Urgell)
Technique
handmade, incising
Where is it?
Reserva provisonal
Dimensions
30 x 21 mm
Description
Spindle whorl from the Iberian settlement of Tossal de les Tenalles (Sidamon, el Pla d'Urgell, Lleida). The object was recovered in summer 1915 in the excavations carried out by the Institut d'Estudis Catalnas. A frustoconical ceramic piece with a central hole and complex decoration of incised lines combined with a continuous line forming a zigzag motif of triangles. A spindle whorl is one of the parts of the spindle that was used to spin vegetal or animal fibres. The central hole of the whorl was inserted in a small wooden stick -the spindle- where the whorl would act as a counterweight facilitating turning the whole and thus twisting the yarn – the action of spinning. This then would be used for weaving as threads for the weft or the warp.

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