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© Museu d'Arqueologia de Catalunya - Girona
Omeka ID 3164
Empúries

whistle

MAC GIR-002032

Object type
whistle
Production date
14 / 192
Fabric
-
Museum
Museu d'Arqueologia de Catalunya - Girona
Culture
-
Discovery location
Empúries
Materials
bone
Township
Escala, l' (Europa, Espanya, Catalunya, Girona, Alt Empordà)
Technique
carving, polishing
Where is it?
MASPG
Dimensions
81 x 18 mm
Description
Roman-era whistle dated in the 1st-2nd centuries AD and from Empúries (L'Escala, Alt Empordà). It is decorated on both sides with two groups of incisive concentric circles and with the distal end turned. A circular perforation crosses it from the proximal end and at the same time serves as an entrance and exit hole for the air, by means of a bevelled reduction cut into the top. It entered the museum in a purchase as part of a batch of various objects, from the systematic plundering of the Emporitan necropolis, in 1905.

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