Terracotta spindle whorl

Cypriot

Not on view

Engraved decoration, filled with lime; around the body is a large zigzag made up of oblique lines with dots along one side and rows of short parallel strokes along the other; in the open spaces are small groups of parallel horizontal strokes; on the base is a ring of zigzag lines around a ring containing parallel strokes.
This spindle-whorl may come from the northern coast of Cyprus (Lapithos or Vounous, or possibly Dhenia). (VK)

Terracotta spindle whorl, Terracotta, Cypriot

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