Bone needle

Roman

On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 171

The exact purpose for which needles with triple perforations were used has not been determined, but they have been found most commonly at Roman sites of the mid-to-late Imperial period.

Bone needle, Ivory or bone, Roman

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